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Hillsborough update

http://www.ipcc.gov.uk/sites/default...ember_2013.pdf

IPCC have now interviewed 101 Hillsborough officers. 9 refused to be interviewed and 7 were deemed not fit to be interviewed on health grounds.

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Did anyone else see this?

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-25685107

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Nope, neither do I care.

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http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-26866318

Is this common? Surely an inquest should only hear the facts, as best they can be established, to come to a verdict rather than emotional evidence that has no bearing on how the deaths occurred.

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An inquest is supposed to establish the identity of the deceased, the time and location of their death, the medical cause of death and the verdict in law. Legally, it is strictly limited to those objectives however most of the inquests I covered as a hack allowed background evidence about the deceased, basically because it was a last chance to say nice things about someone whose death was sudden or unexplained, for the benefit of the relatives. So I'd say there are a good few acres of precedent for this approach.

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Fair enough, I was under the impression they were fairly dry affairs interested in only the facts.

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On the contrary, on our paper they were a reliable source of tear-jerking human interest stories, without even having to approach the family for a quote.

Then sometimes they really do kick off, I covered one in which two kids died in a fatal house fire caused by fag ends and almost certainly exacerbated by the layabout father removing the batteries from the council-installed smoke alarm because it went off every time his wife fried chips. Their relationship broke up as a result and when the inquest came round they tried to kill each other in the public gallery...

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http://labourlist.org/2014/06/why-mi...akes-no-sense/

Milliband demonstrating how he's a blokey "man of the people".

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I think he's been kidnapped and this is proof he is still alive.

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He doesn't look alive - he looks like a waxwork....

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Why is he swearing

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It's probably really a copy of "Socialist Worker" and the spin department have photoshopped a copy of the Sun in.

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The Liverpool fans who just kept piling in at that end of the ground - I wonder what their memories and thoughts are now.

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And now he's sorry.....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27829958