A Country Of Collusion And Injustice
Orgreave, Hillsborough, Grenfell, Windrush, and now The Post Office/Fujitsu scandal
“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
― Robert F. Kennedy
On Wednesday this week, BBC Newsnight brought four individuals together in the TV studio to meet for the first time. Each one of them had been part of four tragic experiences that will mark and stain England forever — Hillsborough, Grenfell, Windrush, and the Post Office/Fujitsu scandal which is now the worst miscarriage of justice in British history.
They were Jenni Hicks whose two daughters aged 15 and 19 (Sarah and Vicki) died at Hillsborough; Karim Mussilhy whose uncle Hesham Rahman died in the inferno of Grenfell Tower; Glenda Caesar who was told she was an illegal immigrant after coming to the UK as part of the Windrush generation in 1961 as a baby with her mum and Tracey Merritt who was wrongly accused of theft by The Post Office and sacked by them in 2009.
