Posted on 04/27/2016 8:10:09 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Hillsborough is not over!
In the longest running inquest in British legal history and possibly the biggest policing cover up ever, a Coroner’s Jury found retired Police Superintendent David Duckenfield and other senior commanders responsible for the unlawful killing of 96 soccer fans.
The unlawful killing finding was the key component of the 14 counts and now invites criminal manslaughter charges to be filed. That decision will be taken by Assistant Police Commissioner John Stoddart, appointed directly by Home Secretary Theresa May in 2012 to run Operation Resolve. It is the official investigation that would then refer evidence to the Crown Prosecution Service.
I hear they can get pretty out of hand at these events. Justified? Perhaps.
The stadium disaster occurred at a football (soccer) match on April 15th 1989 at the Hillsborough stadium in Sheffield during an FA Cup Semi Final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest. As crowd management by the Sheffield police failed to funnel Liverpool fans into the stadium quickly enough and in an evenly distributed enough way before kick-off, police commanders fatefully ordered the opening of additional gates causing a rush resulting in two already full enclosures to be massively and very quickly overfilled, while two more enclosures were largely unused.
Well, manslaughter charges, not murder charges. Murder requires malicious intent, while involuntary manslaughter does not, just negligence.
Maybe there’s proof of malicious intent to justify a murder charge. Or else it’s another case of a prosecutor over-charging a cop so the cop gets off on the charge.
There are no murder charges. I don’t know what you’re talking about.
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