Police officer Mr Griffiths said he feared for his life that day and there was violence on both sides.
“Missiles started being rained upon us – ball bearings, bricks and bits of metal”, he said.
“I turned to a colleague, Stan, and I remember saying: ‘I think we’re gonna die here’.
He said he remembered some miners targeting police horses, including one who “punched the police horse in its face”.
He said when his colleague pulled the reins and the horse’s head “went smash straight into that miner”, the striker asked him: “What are you gonna do about that?”
To which the officer replied: “Absolutely nothing, you deserved that.”
He added: “The war with the miners had to be won. I was one of Maggie’s boys, I knew I was a tool being used by the government to beat the miners.”
Mr Griffiths does not think there should be an inquiry as “it’s history, and I believe it should be left as history”.
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