The father of two sisters crushed to death at the Hillsborough Disaster has told an inquest into the tragedy how he battled to save them.
On a harrowing morning at the inquest in Warrington, Trevor Hicks said he gave his daughters mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and chest compressions while they lay unconscious on the pitch.
Sarah Hicks, 19, and her younger sister Victoria, 15, had been standing in the central pens behind the goal on the Leppings Lane terrace for the FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest on 15 April 1989.
As a result of a crush in the stands, 96 fans died that day, and Mr Hicks said he was "shouting" to police officers as it became clear "extreme circumstances" were developing on the terraces.
Wearing a red ‘96’ commemorative badge on his suit, Mr Hicks told the new inquest into the disaster that he was standing in a different part of the terrace to his girls, while his wife Jenni had a seat in the adjoining North Stand.
Hicks said he made his way down from his position in the south-west terrace underneath the police box and found both of his daughters lying side-by-side.
Hicks said: "I was going to do everything possible and everyone else seemed to be doing that. If they had a chance, they were going to get it.
"I have always been taught that one of the last things that goes is the hearing, so I was calling their names as well, in the hope they’d know we were there.
"I was doing what I thought was best. I spent most of my time on Victoria but there was a group of us, it was a case of swapping around between the two girls, swapping who was doing mouth-to-mouth and who was doing the heart compressions."
Mr Hicks went on to describe the heat-rending circumstances under which he then had to leave Sarah in order to accompany Vicki to hospital in an ambulance.
The inquest is continuing.
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