ABSTRACT
The purpose of this chapter is to highlight the role of the Church of England in the Hillsborough Independent Panel. There is a danger in doing so as by concentrating on one element it can distort the narrative and obscure the significant parts played by others. Nothing should ever detract from the role of the families and the survivors without whose anger, determination, patience and endurance there would never have been any redress for their 96 loved ones. These virtues (yes, anger is a virtue when it is deployed against injustice) were anointed by a dignity that graced their grief. It is rare for anything to be achieved by a single person performing as a soloist. Even when the dynamics of a culture push an individual to the forefront that narrative is always woven out of the many stories of others who have played their own part.
