Hillsborough inquest jury says 96 Liverpool fans were unlawfully killed

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Hillsborough inquest jury says 96 Liverpool fans were unlawfully killed
By Keith Walker



"I want to apologise unreservedly to the families and those affected."

HILLSBOROUGH: -- An inquest into Britain’s worst sporting disaster has ruled that police failures were to blame for the
“unlawful killing” of 96 Liverpool football fans.

The tragedy happened in 1989 at the FA Cup semi-final match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.

Relatives of the victims sang the Liverpool anthem, “You’ll never walk alone” outside the court in northern England.

Police had tried to blame some of the fans who they said were aggressive and drunk.

Charlotte Hennessy’s father was killed in the disaster.

“My Dad has always been an innocent victim, as has every other Liverpool fan, which has been proved today,” she told reporters, “They were not responsible for the cause of the disaster, they did not contribute to the cause of the disaster.”

The inquest found that senior police commanders had edited their officers’ witness statements to paint them in a less damaging light.

The chief constable from South Yorkshire police, David Crompton, addressed reporters after the verdit was announced.

“On 15 April 1989, South Yorkshire Police got the policing of the FA Cup semi final at Hillsborough catastrophically wrong,” said Crompton. “It was and still is the biggest disaster in British sporting history. I want to apologise unreservedly to the families and those affected”

The victims died inside an overcrowded, fenced-in enclosure at the Hillsborough stadium.

Images of young fans crushed against metal fences, bodies lying on the pitch and spectators using advertising hoardings as makeshift stretchers horrified the nation.

-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2016-04-27

[colinneil]

Unlawfully killed!!

So when will that coward Duckenfield be arrested and charged????

[Mosha]

Liverpool fans had an incident in that stand 4 years previous. Leeds too in the same season as the tragedy. Lessons were not learned.

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[klauskunkel]

This is the lesson:

after you get unlawfully killed, you get to wait 27 years to get an "unreserved apology" from someone who was a teenager at the time, while the people who were responsible get to enjoy their freedom, pension and families...

[ggt]

I was under the impression the all killings were unlawful...except for Thailand...

[reggaebkk]

After 30 years and 40 million quids of legal procedures we now know that they were unlawfully killed... Really? Are they sure? Is that amount of time and resources enough to prove that the killings were not completely lawful? I think they should do it all over again, 30 years.... Twice... And take the best of three...

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[SheungWan]

.....and then there was the Heysel Stadium disaster in 1985, again involving Liverpool supporters.

[ddavidovsky]

Culpable negligence is a very tricky area. No doubt mistakes were made. Were the police adequately trained and equipped? Their job is to keep the peace - which is tough enough - managing crowd flow should hardly be their full responsibility. Ultimately, isn't the Home Secretary responsible? The blame game when things go wrong gets a bit silly.

Anyway, having arrived at this verdict of legal culpability, what is the appropriate punishment?

[Baerboxer]

Unlawfully killed!!

So when will that coward Duckenfield be arrested and charged????

All senior officers who are proven to have altered their officers reports to show themselves in a better light should be charged if they are still alive, retired or not.

That is perverting the course of justice.

[robhufton]

I thought the relatives would have shown a little more reverence instead of celebrating like a football match win, but hey, Ker-ching

[ChoakMyDee]

Is it possible that police corruption is a worldwide problem? Surely not?

[Mosha]

S. Yorkshire chief of police has been suspended, following the inquiry.

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