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THE jury at the Hillsborough disaster inquests has heard that former West Yorkshire chief constable Sir Norman Bettison told a man in a pub that South Yorkshire Police would try to “concoct a story that all of the Liverpool fans were drunk.”
Mr Bettison was said to have made the comment to civil servant John Barry in the Fleur de Lys pub in Sheffield a month after the 1989 disaster.
Mr Barry said he and Mr Bettison, a chief inspector with South Yorkshire Police at the time, were among a group of people who would go to the pub after attending a course.
Mr Barry told the jury that Mr Bettison told him: “We are going to try to concoct a story that all of the Liverpool fans were drunk and that we were afraid they were going to break down the gates so we decided to open them.”
Mr Bettison is due to be questioned about his role on the day when 96 Liverpool fans died today.
