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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Olivia Williams & Abigail Nicholson

Fury after claims children 'told to re-enact Hillsborough crush' in drama class

A dad has spoken of his fury after his daughter said she was told to re-enact the Hillsborough disaster in a drama lesson.

A 12-year-old pupil at St John Fisher Catholic High School in Wigan came home on Wednesday, February 2, and told her dad she had been learning about Liverpool.

When her dad asked what she was taught, she told him they had been re-enacting the Hillsborough crush, which claimed the lives of 97 unlawfully killed Liverpool supporters, in drama class, with pupils being told to shout "don't crush me" and some, she said, pretending to be dead.

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