On one devastating day in April 1989, Anne Williams said goodbye to her son as he went off to a football match, but would never see him alive again.
Kevin Williams was desperate to see his beloved Liverpool play in the FA cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest.
Initially his mum refused to let him attend the match at Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough stadium, but husband Steve told her: "The poor bugger. All he does is study for his GCSEs. Let him go."
The last time Anne saw Kevin before his death, he came into the newsagent where she worked to get snacks for the journey and they shared a hug.
Kevin travelled to the match with friend Andy, but he didn't return home after Britain's worst sporting disaster.
The fatal decision to open an exit gate by the Leppings Lane turnstiles led to a crush in the central pen which claimed the lives of 97 people.
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With no word from Kevin, his parents frantically drove to Sheffield to try to find their son.
They were eventually led to a room full of polaroid's and asked to identify their son from among the faces of the dead.
Traumatised and grief stricken, they attended the inquest into Kevin’s death expecting answers but the evidence they heard threw up even more questions.
Their confusion was reinforced by a visit from an Inspector the day after the inquest, who said he had come to clear up some details they may have heard the previous day and explained how the witness evidence was at odds with the medical evidence.
After an overall verdict of accidental death, Anne couldn't let her anger and frustration rest and joined the Hillsborough Family Support Group with other families who believed justice had not been done.
Anne was initially told that her son had died of traumatic asphyxia and was brain dead by 3.15pm, but this was not true.
She was later told that Kevin had spoken a word at 3.57pm in the makeshift mortuary to a special WPC, which she immediately correctly knew was "mum".
"The policewoman nodded and I broke down in tears. I was inconsolable. That word shattered my heart. I felt I had lost Kevin all over again," said Anne.
Anne eventually tracked down the SWPC, Debra Martin, who told her Kevin had opened his eyes while she gave him heart massage, said "mum", then died.
"We held each other and cried. I was so happy that Kevin had died in the arms of such a lovely woman and that he wasn’t just dumped somewhere to die as the inquest said he was. It made such a difference to me," explained Anne.
Anne dedicated her life to over-turning the false official version of her son’s death, even tutoring herself to become a legal and medical expert to fight the Establishment.
She famously said: "They’re going to try and wear me down. But... I’ll wear them down before they wear me out."
Anne went to a top pathologist who established that Kevin hadn’t died of traumatic asphyxia but of neck injuries which closed down his airways.
In 2012, the Hillsborough Independent Panel Report produced evidence that at least 41 victims may have survived had they received treatment once they were pulled from the pen, including Kevin.
The Government ordered two criminal investigations and the High Court quashed the accidental death verdicts and ordered fresh inquests.
Despite being diagnosed with terminal bowel cancer, she was at the High Court of Justice in London to see the Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge order fresh hearings into the deaths.
Speaking after the historic hearing, which she attended in a wheelchair, she thanked Attorney General Dominic Grieve for being "a man of his word" in pushing for the new inquests.
She said: "I am glad we never gave up. It has been hard, but we wouldn't have been here today.
"I'd like a corporate manslaughter verdict in the inquest, it's the least for what they have done.
"God willing, I will be here, it has been a long wait to see justice.
"I am so glad I could be here today to hear it for myself."
Referring to the cover-up that shifted blame away from the authorities and on to the victims, she said: "I can't forgive them the extremes they went to. Why didn't they just give us the truth?"
Against all medical advice, she defied doctors' expectations by attending the Anfield memorial service for the 24th anniversary of Hillsborough in April 2013.
Tragically, Anne died in 2013 just three years before the inquest that ruled that the Hillsborough victims had been unlawfully killed.
Liverpool FC posted a statement which read: "Liverpool Football Club was this morning saddened to hear of the death of prominent Hillsborough campaigner Anne Williams. RIP Anne."
While Liverpool legend Robbie Fowler wrote: "RIP Anne Williams....one of the Liverpool mums, a remarkable woman in every way..."
In new ITV drama Anne, the titular character is played by Black Mirror actress Maxine Peake, who has been praised by the Hillsborough campaigner's daughter.
Kevin's sister, Sara Williams, was just 10 at the time of the football stadium crush that claimed 97 lives.
While she knew Maxine would do a "really good job" of playing their mum she was stunned by how good her performance turned out to be in the drama named after her mother.
"When we went to see the final version I thought, how can someone play my mum and feel like my mum? At first, you watch it thinking, ‘she looks a bit like her’. But by the end, I felt I was watching Mum," said Sara.
Sara, who also praised Stephen Walters for his portrayal of her dad, Steve, said it was important to show how much the families suffered.
She added: "It was difficult [to watch] but a relief, in a way, that people could see it wasn’t just the people who died at Hillsborough and wasn’t just the campaign. Families were destroyed. Brothers and sisters’ lives destroyed."
As a companion film to 'Anne' the drama, Maxine Peake, who plays her, immerses herself in her story by speaking to family, survivors and countless others.
The Shameless star said she didn't want to "do an impression" of of the Hillsborough campaigner.
"I thought, all I can do is get a sense of Anne and her fight for justice and her warmth and her humanity," she said.
She hopes the drama shows the power of standing up in "solidarity" against the establishment and that "the little person can take them on".
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