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Police are investigating after sick images of the Hillsborough tragedy were sent to two Liverpool fans.
Vile letters containing the distressing items were sent anonymously to addresses in Ormskirk, a town in West Lancashire.
It appears that the receivers were targeted because they hung Liverpool flags outside their homes.
One of the recipients, Carl Edwards, was at the stadium the day that the tragedy struck in 1989.
Mr Edwards told the Liverpool Echo he had returned to the letter after being away to the Lake District.
Included in the sickening note were images of the tragedy showing fans being crushed.
The sender had downloaded the pictures onto an A4 piece of paper, with the words “die scouse b******* die, ha ha ha, f*** off back to Liverpool” sprawled onto it.
Another letter, almost entirely identical, was also sent to Royal Mail driver Sean Flaherty and his beautician wife Helen Flaherty.
The post was simply titled “Scousers” was shared on Facebook, which was noticed by Mr Edwards.
He told the Liverpool Echo: “When I saw the letter, which was a bit rough looking, I said ‘look, here’s ours’.
“We have a lot of flags outside to be honest. You will get people making comments, but equally you will get people beeping their horn and cheering.
“If it was just football banter, that would be fine.
“I might be a bit affronted or indignant, but now I just feel like with the Hillsborough stuff it becomes my responsibility to report to the police, it becomes a whole other level.”
Mr Edwards, 59, is a survivor of the Hillsborough tragedy, where 96 people were unlawfully killed.
Prior to the disaster, the lifelong Liverpool fan left to move to another part of the stadium after his father said: “Lets go and stand in the place where we saw us beat [Nottingham Forest] last year”.
Mr Edwards added said: “It does upset you. My wife and I were talking about how in football there are people you love to hate, like Alex Ferguson or Jose Mourinho, but it is all within the parameters of an organised thing.
“If you saw them in person and they were in trouble you would help them just like you would help anyone else because you don’t hate the human.
“But this is not about football, this is a hate crime. Whoever it is has taken the time to drive past my house, and then gone home, looked up my address, printed off the pictures and sent it in the post.
