What have I seen in Liverpool this week? Kindness in person and conspiracies online | Liam Thorp

After celebration turned to chaos, Liverpudlians stepped in to help those in need - while the usual suspects spread lies

This doesn't sound good at all." The message flashed up on a group chat I am in with other journalists in Liverpool and Merseyside. My blood cooled instantly upon reading it. I have heard those words before and I know what they mean. They mean something has happened. Something big and something bad. It wasn't long before we all started to realise quite how big and quite how bad.

After a day of joyous celebration that turned Liverpool into a sea of brilliant red, hundreds of fans were heading back into the city when they looked up to see an ambulance moving through a temporarily pedestrianised route on its way to help a stricken individual. The fans, anxious to assist, moved to the side, when a Ford Galaxy suddenly emerged from behind it and in a few terrible moments, turned elation and harmony into chaos and pain.

Liam Thorp is political editor at the Liverpool Echo

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