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Sir Norman Bettison gives new meaning to the word 'despicable' for his role in the Hillsborough Disaster - it takes a special kind of b*****d to lie so shamelessly but he is somehow still untouchable, writes IAN HERBERT

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Just when we thought there was nothing more to glean about the dismal failings and vicious little lies of the senior police officers who covered their tracks after the scandal of Hillsborough, more of their bare-faced arrogance and rank complacency emerged on Tuesday, in the long-awaited findings of the watchdog which monitors our crime-fighting forces.

From the petty jealousies of the South Yorkshire Police top brass to the vile way subordinates were ordered to photograph rubbish bins and comb criminal records, looking to tarnish the names of the Liverpool dead, a nauseating stench emanates from the Independent Office for Police Conduct report into the disaster.