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| Subject: Charges loom as UK's Hillsborough poLICE cover-up is exposed Thu Sep 13, 2012 11:54 pm | |
| A fresh inquest into the 1989 Hillsborough football stadium disaster, in which 96 Liverpool fans died in a crush, is likely to be ordered after the scale of the establishment cover-up was revealed for the first time.
Prosecutions of key figures are also possible after the Hillsborough Independent Panel, chaired by the Anglican Bishop of Liverpool, James Jones, and with unrestricted access to 450,000 documents, revealed the depth of a police cover-up that began the morning after the disaster.
It confirmed Lord Justice Taylor's key finding in August 1989 that the main reason for the disaster during the FA Cup semi-final was a ''failure in police control''. It also revealed that ''multiple failures'' in other emergency services and public bodies contributed to the death toll. Serious failings in the inquests and reviews that followed prolonged the agony of the victims' families.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/charges-loom-as-hillsborough-coverup-is-exposed-20120913-25v7e.html#ixzz26PevgRye
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