The British police is due to the Hillsboroughramp in 1989, in which 96 fans of Liverpool Football club by tribulation. A British jury Tuesday determined that the supporters by negligent police action have been killed. The police at the time made it possible for two thousand men could enter the stand too much.
The jury concluded that the authorities have committed big mistakes around the FA Cup between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest, which in 1989 was played in the stadium of Sheffield Wednesfield. This gives the police the disaster made possible. On the question of whether the conduct of Liverpool supporters contributed to the dangerous situation, the jury answered negative.
For two years, has a nine-member jury examined the question of guilt. About the great part of the questionnaire that was submitted before the jurors unanimously bleaching them harmoniously, but one question remained about the members divided. The judge gave approval for a decree of 7 to 2, or 8 opposite 1.
The question on which the jury was not unanimous agreement, concerned the question of guilt. The jury would accept ' a wrongful death ' of 96 supporters, then that would be inherently mean that police chief David Duckenfield ' was responsible for manslaughter by gross negligence '.
Tribulation At the Hillsboroughramp in 1989, 96 Liverpool supporters. In the former Stadium of Sheffield Wednesday fans were oppressed in the mass, after hundreds of supporters from outside the Stadium on the tribune added. By the tribulation suffocated dozens of fans, other climbed in panic over the fences that separated the stand of the field.
Duckenfield played a crucial role in the disaster. Because of the hustle and bustle at entrance gates to the stand the police chief gave the command to open a large output, so that two thousand men from outside the stadium in could quickly. At the back the supporters noted nothing of the great tribulation against the fence at the front the stand took place.
That the Liverpool fans according to the jury, blameless, is an important victory for those involved and next of kin. Immediately after the disaster had the police blame the fans, enthusiastic taken over by the Government-Thatcher and by The Sun. Under the heading ' The Truth ' wrote the tabloid the most terrible things about the Liverpool fans, that they were blind drunk, even that they are bezondigden to lijkenpikkerij. In 2014 the newspaper came back on those accusations.
For the jury verdict had Tuesday a large group of interested parties gathered at the Court. After the publication of the judgment you'll never walk alone, attendees sang the anthem of the club Liverpool. The case of Hillsborough is the longest running court case with a jury in the history of the British criminal law.
By: Editorial UK Photo: REUTERS
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