Hillsborough disaster "The Sun" Political Editor Tom Newton Dunn defended this decision, saying "I don't think it should all be about "The Sun" – it was not us who committed Hillsborough." Trevor Kavanagh, the political editor at the time of the Hillsborough disaster, said that he was "not sorry at all" about the reporting and supported his former boss Kelvin MacKenzie, claiming that "we were clearly misled about the events and the authorities, including the police, actively concealed the truth". In February 2017, Liverpool F.C. issued a ban on "The Sun" journalists from entering their grounds in response to the coverage of
Hillsborough disaster at Hillsborough was 67-year-old Gerard Baron, an older brother of the late Liverpool player Kevin Baron (1926–1971), who had been on the losing side in the 1950 FA Cup Final. Stephen Whittle is considered by some to be the 97th victim of Hillsborough, as due to work commitments, he had sold his ticket to a friend (whom he and his family chose not to identify), who then died in the disaster; the resulting feeling of survivor guilt is believed to be the main reason for his suicide in February 2011. The majority of victims that lost their lives were from