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The Hillsborough banners that gave a voice to Liverpool fans

Ninety-seven Liverpool fans lost their lives as a result of a crush at the Hillsborough disaster on 15 April 1989. In the years since, one fan's banners have been giving a voice to fans in the city's fight for justice.

Thirty-three years ago, overcrowding occurred on the terraces of Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough stadium at the start of the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.

It remains the UK's worst sporting disaster with a jury at an inquest later ruling that they were unlawfully killed.

Among those attending the match in the Leppings Lane end, where a barrier gave way under the throng, was Peter Carney.