Kelvin Mackenzie: "I am sorry that it was so wrong"

Kelvin Mackenzie the editor of the Sun at the time of the Hillsborough disaster has issued an apology to the people of Liverpool. Kelvin Mackenzie's statement in full: 

"Today I offer my profuse apologies to the people of Liverpool for that headline. I too was totally misled. Twenty three ago I was handed a piece of copy from a reputable news agency in Sheffield in which a senior police officer and a senior local MP were making serious allegations against fans in the stadium. I had absolutely no reason to believe that these authority figures would lie and deceive over such a disaster. As the Prime Minister has made clear these allegations were wholly untrue and were part of a concerted plot by police officers to discredit the supporters thereby shifting the blame for the tragedy from themselves. It has taken more than two decades, 400,000 documents and a two-year inquiry to discover to my horror that it would have been far more accurate had I written the headline The Lies rather than The Truth. I published in good faith and I am sorry that it was so wrong."

Trevor Hicks who lost two daughters that day said of the apology "its to little to late" went on to describe Mackenzie as a "low life a clever low life but a low life" and threatened the BBC by saying "if they want to work with us again then he must be off the screens" and the broadcaster "does not work with him ever again".