A PROMINENT blogger has come under fire for blaming Liverpool fans for the Hillsborough disaster despite an inquest vindicating them.

Stuart Campbell, the popular blogger who runs the pro-Independence website Wings over Scotland, faced demands to apologise after he stood by his views that Liverpool supporters were partly to blame for the 1989 tragedy.

On Tuesday, jurors in the Hillsborough inquest concluded that the 96 Liverpool fans who died in the disaster were unlawfully killed.

However, Mr Campbell stood by his comments after Twitter user Kenny Crichton told him to "hang his head in shame".

@kenny_crichton Why? Liverpool fans killed them, not me.

— Wings Over Scotland (@WingsScotland) April 27, 2016

In an interview with the Sunday Herald in 2014, Mr Campbell admitted some people had become upset at his personal views after the official pro-independence campaign apparently distanced themselves from the blog in the run-up to the referendum.

In September 2012, a day after an independent panel found that policing failures were responsible for the disaster, Mr Campbell wrote a controversial article that sparked a furore. 

He wrote: "The police's mendacious attempts to blame the fans for being drunk, late or ticketless were red herrings.

"The reality is much simpler, and required no lying - the fans were to blame because they, alone, were the ones who pushed and thereby caused the crush."

Mr Campbell came under-fire from various users on Twitter over his remarks.

ITV's Damon Green, who attended the inquests over the last two years, urged him to apologise saying "there's no shame in admitting you made a mistake".

Another Twitter user said: Have you ever felt a moment's empathy for the people crushed to death or traumatised at Hillsborough?", whilst Scotzine critcised the blogger for being a "disgusting troll".