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The relatives of the 96 victims of the disaster have waited 32 years to be told that their efforts and suffering were for nothing
For the families of the 96 people unlawfully killed at Hillsborough due to police gross negligence, a nightmare 32-year ordeal through the British legal system has ended with an outcome that feels like a final insult.
The result is that nobody has been held accountable for the needless deaths, injuries and enduring trauma suffered at a showpiece event, the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest, due to be broadcast to the nation by the BBC on a sunny day in April 1989. After the bizarre conclusion this week of the latest failed case brought by the Crown Prosecution Service, nobody has been held accountable either for the lies of the South Yorkshire police, which started even as people were dying, and attempted to blame the victims rather than take responsibility for what had happened.
Related: Covid bereaved join call for ‘Hillsborough law’ to force duty of candour
David Conn writes for the Guardian on investigations, sport, the Hillsborough disaster, Brexit and other issues. He is the author of The Fall of the House of Fifa
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For the families of the 96 people unlawfully killed at Hillsborough due to police gross negligence, a nightmare 32-year ordeal through the British legal system has ended with an outcome that feels like a final insult.
The result is that nobody has been held accountable for the needless deaths, injuries and enduring trauma suffered at a showpiece event, the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest, due to be broadcast to the nation by the BBC on a sunny day in April 1989. After the bizarre conclusion this week of the latest failed case brought by the Crown Prosecution Service, nobody has been held accountable either for the lies of the South Yorkshire police, which started even as people were dying, and attempted to blame the victims rather than take responsibility for what had happened.
Related: Covid bereaved join call for ‘Hillsborough law’ to force duty of candour
David Conn writes for the Guardian on investigations, sport, the Hillsborough disaster, Brexit and other issues. He is the author of The Fall of the House of Fifa
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