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Originally Posted by Vieil Homme
Regarding the request that the inquest being re-opened so the findings can be changed from accidental death. At the end of the day even with the false statements from the police it is still a tragic accident.
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As my local coroner used to say, "an accident is the unforeseen outcome of a deliberate act." Personally I think he used to interpret that a tad widely (I sat through far more inquests than I would have liked, as a young reporter).
The Hillsborough families have quite a strong argument that the failures in crowd control and disaster management were so great that the eventual outcome was by no means unforseeable. They're not going to get an unlawful killing verdict but a narrative verdict finding negligence on the part of some of those involved is quite achievable IMO.