It was like any build up to a big game.
At 2.24 Liverpool fans are seen making the
journey by foot from the station to the stadium.
Kick offs in half an hour - and people are
tightly packed at the turnstile entrance to
the lettings lane terrace
CCTV footage, which was being monitored by
police that day, shows how the crowd outside
was growing by the minute.
Inside, the two centre pens of the terrace
were packed - but people were in good spirits.
But at 2.40 the first real sign that things
were going badly wrong, with a young boy lifted
clear from the crush.
Superintendent Roger Marshal, who was the
police officer in charge outside the ground,
is clearly worried. He later said he feared
fatalities could occur.
Inside, everyone was heading to the jammed
centre pens, despite there being plenty of
room in the pens at either end of the terrace.
At 2.52, with the crowds building, and kick
off drawing closer the police made the decision
to open the exit gate.
Over the course of 5 minutes, two thousand
fans
streamed through - with most of them heading
straight to the centre pens.
Just a couple of minutes into the game it
became clear something was wrong behind the
Liverpool goal.
It seems initially police thought it was a
pitch invasion, but soon people were collapsing
on both sides of the fence.
At six minutes past three police ordered the
players off the pitch.
But it still seemed they hadn't grasped the
scale of the tragedy unfolding before their
eyes.
It wasn't until 12 minutes past three that
the first medic, a St Johns ambulance volunteer,
climbed over the fence on to the terrace
By then people had already died - or were
dying.
At the back and front of the pens supporters
were trampled in the desperation. Others tried
to get out however they could
Then, at 16 minutes past three the first ambulance
arrived pitch side.
But that was already too late for 96 fans.
