34 years ago was the time for an apology..

Police 'sorry' for Hillsborough | Report reply 'too little too late' Encinoma

- PAUL BYRNE and TOM PETTIFOR

AN apology from senior police officers yesterday over the 1989 Hillsborough disaster was slammed as "too little too late".

Finally responding to a 2017 report, which made 25 recommendations including a Public Authority Accountability Bill or Hillsborough Law, they promised a "cultural change" and admitted that "policing got it badly wrong".

But survivors and relatives of the 97 who died reacted with anger.

Louise Brookes, whose brother Andrew, 26, was killed, said: "The time when they needed to apologise was 34 years ago when they lied about my brother and the other 96 victims. It is too little too late." Peter Scarfe, of the Hillsborough Survivors Support Alliance, added: "People are extremely angry that it has taken so long.