Hillsborough: officers and lawyer altered accounts, court hears

Ex-chief superintendent, former DCI and solicitor accused of seeking to mask failings' of police

Two former South Yorkshire police officers and the force's lawyer in 1989, when 96 people were killed at Hillsborough football ground, altered police accounts given about the disaster to mask the failings" of the force, a court has heard.

Peter Metcalf, 71, who was a partner at the firm of solicitors that acted for the force, Hammond Suddards, Donald Denton, 83, a police chief superintendent at the time, and Alan Foster, 74, a detective chief inspector, are accused of intending to pervert the course of justice by overseeing and making the alterations.