A father has told of identifying the bodies of his two teenage daughters killed in the "chaos" and "mayhem" of the Hillsborough disaster.
Trevor Hicks was on the Leppings Lane terrace when he realised fans were being crushed in pens behind the goals where his daughters, Sarah, 19, and Victoria, 15, were standing.
The Liverpool season ticket-holders, with his former wife, Jenni, who was sitting in another part of the Hillsborough ground, had travelled from their home in Middlesex and arrived at the ground for the FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest on April 15, 1989.
But his teenage daughters had "given him the slip" and went to stand in pens behind the goal with friends, Mr Hicks told the Hillsborough inquest. His daughters were among the 96 Liverpool fans crushed to death in the central pens behind the goal on the Leppings Lane terrace.
Mr Hicks told the inquest in Warrington ten minutes before the 3pm kick-off he realised there was a serious problem of crushing in the central pens.
Mr Hicks said he then saw a girl being passed over the fence onto the pitch - and recognised it was his daughter,Victoria.
He got onto the pitch, where he described the condition as "chaos" and found both his daughters laid out side by side.
He went in an ambulance with Victoria to the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield, after being assured Sarah would be in the next ambulance.
His daughter had a "flicker of a pulse", but, Mr Hicks continued: "About ten to 15 minutes later Pc McGuinness told me she was dead.''
They were taken into a room with a police officer pinning Polaroid photos of the dead on to a wall.
The parents then saw among the photos of the dead a picture of their other daughter, Sarah.
Mr Hicks said: "Basically they brought the girls out on to trolleys.
"They unzipped the body bags so we could identify them formally.''
After a long campaign by victims' families, the original inquest verdict of accidental death was quashed in the High Court in 2012, leading to the fresh inquests now being held in Warrington.
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