FORMER miners’ leader Arthur Scargill has demanded an open public inquiry regarding the Battle of Orgreave.
The former NUM president is calling for officers involved in violent clashes with miners on the picket line at the Orgreave coking plant in Sheffield to be named.
The clash between pickets and South Yorkshire Police in June 1984 resulted in 95 miners facing charges including riot.
The charges were dropped and compensation paid to those accused after evidence was found to have been fabricated, as it had been by police five years later at Hillsborough.
Mr Scargill claims the same senior police officers were involved both in the aftermath of Orgreave and the Hillsborough disaster five years later.
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