Ex-Hillsborough safety officer laid blame for crush on poor policing

The former Sheffield Wednesday club secretary Graham Mackrell arrives at Preston crown court on Monday. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty ImagesThe conviction of Graham Mackrell, the Sheffield Wednesday club secretary and safety officer for its Hillsborough ground on 15 April 1989, is the first criminal or disciplinary finding against anybody in relation to the deaths of 96 people at the FA Cup semi-final that day between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest. Mackrell, a qualified accountant who