A BELL tolled in Liverpool to commemorate the Hillsborough disaster victims yesterday as the city paid tribute after a landmark inquest found 96 Liverpool football fans were unlawfully killed in the 1989 stadium crush. The Liverpool Municipal Buildings bell was struck 96 times from 3:06pm — ...
Hillsborough: A Fight for AllTHIS year finally saw justice done for the 96 victims of the Hillsborough disaster - and for their families. Today Labour MP ANDY BURNHAM, who played a key part in uncovering the truth, gives a moving account of this historic victory....
The verdicts mark the conclusion of inquests that lasted more than two years into Britain's worst sporting disaster. The original verdicts of accidental death were overturned in 2012, and a new inquest was ordered after years of campaigning by the victims' families. The jury, which had b...
Liverpool will mark the 29th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster with a minute's applause and a special "96" mosaic at Saturday's home game against Bournemouth. The tributes will be paid 24 hours before the actual anniversary as the club do not play games on April 15. The victims' fam...
SAVED; HILLSBOROUGH DISASTER PM APOLOGISES TO FAMILIES OF 96 DEAD; Officers Abused National Computer to Say Victims Were Known Criminals; NEW EVIDENCE SHOWS SHOCKING TRUTH OF TRAGEDY POLICE SMEARED INNOCENT VICTIMS TO AVOID BLAME; Officers Abused National Computer to Say Victims Were Known Criminals...
This article explores UK press reporting in the immediate aftermath of the Hillsborough Disaster in 1989 and the shootings at Dunblane Primary School in 1996. Although the circumstances surrounding each tragedy were very different, both resulted in the death and injury of many innocent victims. ...
Hillsborough victims: 'Time is not a healer' While prime minister, Mr Brown ordered the creation of the Hillsborough Independent Panel, which in 2012 revealed police failings and eventually led to the quashing of the accidental death verdicts in 1991 from the first inquests. ...
It was only 28 years after the tragedy, however, that an inquest ruled that the victims had been unlawfully killed and ruled accidental, and that the blame was ultimately left on the shoulders of the police and ambulance services. What events led to the Hillsborough disaster?
The Hillsborough Law is also supported by victims of the Grenfell Tower fire, infected blood scandal, and bereaved COVID families, who want to prevent cover-ups in the event of future tragedies and give victims better access to justice when going up against the state.Government 'fully committed...
When the crush started to occur, a simple unlocking of those gates would have eased the pressure on those fans at the front and the disaster could have been averted. I’d suggest that the keys to those gates were not within easy reach of anyone at Hillsborough. I’d even suggest that ...