Tributes paid to bereaved father who helped lead Hillsborough campaign

Phil Hammond at a demonstration by the families of the victims of the Hillsborough football ground disaster outside the Houses of Parliament in 1998 (PA) - (PA Archive)

A father who helped lead the fight for truth and justice after his son was killed in the Hillsborough tragedy has died, according to a campaign group.

Phil Hammond, the former chairman of the Hillsborough Family Support Group (HFSG), was remembered as a “very kind, fair, honest and humble man” by other people bereaved in the 1989 disaster.