The father of two teenagers who died in the Hillsborough disaster was told to "shut his f****** prattle" by a police officer, a court has heard.

Keighley businessman Trevor Hicks, whose daughters Sarah, 19, and Victoria, 15, died at the FA Cup semi-final on April 15 1989, gave evidence at the retrial of match commander David Duckenfield on Wednesday.

He told Preston Crown Court he, his then-wife Jenni and the two girls travelled by car from their home in north London to the match, between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.

He said Mrs Hicks had gone to take up a seat in the stand when they arrived just before 2pm and his daughters had headed down the tunnel to the central pens of the Leppings Lane terrace while he bought programmes.

He said: "One of my last clear images of them was them looking over their shoulders with a bit of a grin."

Mr Hicks took up a position in a side pen, just underneath the police control box, he said.

He told the court he realised something was happening in the central pens when he saw people being pulled into the stand above and carried over fences.

He said he and others near him shouted up to a police officer, wearing a flat cap, who was standing on the platform of the control box.

"We were shouting at him 'do something, you've got it wrong, you've got to help people'," Mr Hicks said.

"I think we even said people were dying in there which we didn't know at the time but we were very concerned because you could see it was very bad in the pens."

He said the officer gave "a few filthy looks" but did not respond.

Mr Hicks said a second police officer came up the stairs to the control box and he and others shouted again for help.

"Basically he swore at me," he said.

"He told me to 'shut your f****** prattle' which I'll never forget."

The court heard Mr Hicks later found his daughters on the pitch, lying "near enough side by side".

He put Victoria in an ambulance and went to hospital with her, believing Sarah would be in another ambulance following closely behind, the jury was told.

After Victoria died at the hospital, Mr and Mrs Hicks learnt Sarah's body was at the gymnasium at the stadium.

Mr Hicks told the court he and his wife travelled back to London that night.

He said: "We were told the girls were the property of the coroner and we wouldn't be able to see them, touch them or anything else."

Duckenfield, 75, denies the gross negligence manslaughter of 95 Liverpool supporters who died in the crush on the terrace.

Under the law at the time there can be no prosecution for the death of the 96th victim, Anthony Bland, of Keighley, as he died more than a year and a day after his injuries were caused.

The retired South Yorkshire Police chief superintendent stood trial for gross negligence manslaughter in January but the jury was unable to return any verdict and was discharged.