Bernard Ingham has again refused to apologise for blaming Liverpool FC fans for the Hillsborough disaster.
The inquest into the 1989 tragedy have today delivered an unlawful killing verdict as the cause of the death of 96 Reds supporters.
Ingham was the chief press secretary to prime minister Margaret Thatcher at the time of Hillsborough and in 1996 wrote a letter which claimed that Liverpool fans were to blame for causing the disaster.
But when door stepped at his Surrey home by the Daily Mirror following today’s ruling, the now 83-year-old insisted he was not willing to discuss the verdict returned after a two-year hearing.
He also said he had “nothing to say” when asked if he would be apologising for branding Liverpool fans as ‘tanked-up yobs’.
When challenged back in 2013, Ingham admitted he had not taken the time to read the Hillsborough Independent Panel report, released a year prior, which led to the quashing of the original inquests.
He had previously revealed South Yorkshire Police officers told both he and Thatcher, his former boss, the day after the Sheffield disaster that ‘a tanked-up mob’ of fans outside the football ground were to blame.