KENNY Dalglish is to be given the Freedom of the City of Liverpool today at a special ceremony.
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The families of the victims have already been awarded the freedom of the city back in 2009.
Scrolls with the names of the victims were given to their families at the event in St George’s Hall.
The 65-year-old will receive the highest civic honour, alongside his wife Marina, in recognition of the support they have shown families affected by the Hillsborough tragedy.
He said on occasions like this the relatives are uppermost in his thoughts: “Closure isn’t going to be the same for every single family – different families will have different acceptance of what closure is”.
Wife Marina also received a medal A Freedom of the City of Liverpool medal is seen as the 96 victims of the Hillsborough disaster are honoured with the Freedom of the City of Liverpool during a ceremony held at St Georges’s Hall on September 22, 2016 in Liverpool, England.
The city’s lord mayor, Roz Gladden, will present the awards.
Others are Professor Phil Scraton, who wrote the Hillsborough Independent Panel report, while the Right Reverend James Jones, the former Bishop of Liverpool who chaired the Hillsborough Independent Panel, will collect his in the new year.
The 96 were given individual scrolls and medals, displayed at the city’s Town Hall on Wednesday, to mark their Freedom of Liverpool.
He added: “They have always had the support of the city behind them”.
A scroll made out to Jon-Paul Gilhooley, who aged 10 was the youngest victim at Hillsborough.
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Mothers, fathers, siblings and children collected honours for the 96 one by one, in what serves as a fitting award for those who lost their lives in the tragedy in Sheffield in 1989.
