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No police apology for editor

A chief constable has told former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie he will not get an apology relating to the infamous "The Truth" story published in the wake of the Hillsborough disaster.

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Mr MacKenzie has instructed solicitors to demand an apology and recompense from South Yorkshire Police after claiming he suffered personal vilification due to the newspaper's discredited reporting of the disaster.

It wrongly claimed Liverpool fans urinated on police officers resuscitating the dying and stole from the dead after the tragedy in which 96 died in 1989.

South Yorkshire Police Chief Constable David Crompton said: "We have apologised to the Hillsborough families but we will not apologise to Mr MacKenzie. He chose to write his own headline."

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