‘THIS STORY IS ABOUT LOVE’
Anne Williams was not supposed to be celebrated in a major television series and documentary. She neither sought nor enjoyed the limelight. But, after the Hillsborough disaster, in which 97 people died as a result of police and other systemic failings at the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest on April 15, 1989, Anne stepped up.
Her 15-year-old son Kevin died at Hillsborough. The truth about his final minutes was covered up and lied about. The facts only came to light, as shown in this heartbreaking, vital four-part drama – in which Maxine Peake plays Anne –because of Anne’s tenacious, tireless campaigning alongside other survivors and bereaved families.
The truth. Now there’s an emotive pair of words for anyone affected by Hillsborough. Because not only is the truth what they were denied for so long. But “The Truth” was the front-page headline in newspaper that tried to pin
