| joglynne |
27-05-2021 10:32 |
Re: Hillsborough - 20th anniversary
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Originally Posted by Chris
(Post 36080971)
There was no witch hunt. These men falsified official police records to cover up the gross negligence that led to dozens of deaths. They lied to an official inquiry led by a judge. Those facts are established. The case failed on a very narrow technicality, around the precise definition of ‘perverting the course of justice’ in English law and the way in which the original inquiry was constituted.
It doesn’t become a witch hunt just because those in power got away with it for decades before anyone made a serious attempt to prosecute them.
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I agree wholeheartedly Chris. It seems so wrong that a legal technicality can be used to cover up such gross negligence. To say that these 3 men
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The trial of two retired police officers and a solicitor accused of perverting the course of justice following the Hillsborough disaster has collapsed after the judge ruled there was no case to answer.
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If it had been a case of a single death than, having proved that there had been no intent to take a life the accused would at least been tried/charged/sentenced for manslaughter.
I hope there is some way that afresh charge can be levelled against them.
https://news.sky.com/story/hillsboro...nswer-12317279 |
