Six charged over Hillsborough disaster

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Warrington (CNN)Britain's Crown Prosecution Service has confirmed that it has charged six people with criminal offenses over the 1989 Hillsborough disaster in which 96 supporters of Liverpool football club lost their lives.

A former senior police officer, David Duckenfield, will face manslaughter charges over 95 of the 96 deaths.
The decision, which comes 28 years after the tragedy, follows last year's inquests which found that those who died were unlawfully killed.

www.cnn.com/2017/06/28/europe/hillsborough-stadium-disaster-manslaughter-charges/index.html

More justice is coming for the 96.

[Nikki Heyman]

I've watched a couple of documentaries about this, what a clusterf*** that was....

I don't know much about setups at the soccer stadiums, but that end of the "pitch" looked really odd to me. Standing room only with a guardrail here and there?

[Futureraven: Beelzebruv]

Jun 28, 2017 19:45:23 GMT -5 Nikki Heyman said:

I've watched a couple of documentaries about this, what a clusterf*** that was....

I don't know much about setups at the soccer stadiums, but that end of the "pitch" looked really odd to me. Standing room only with a guardrail here and there?

That's how it was for like, 90 years, stadiums were mainly standing. Cheaper, so working class people could get in, and you can fit more people into the same space.

Seats were for more well off people in other areas. Some stadiums in other countries have kind of hybrid seated/standing areas. But after this and other incidents, English stadiums are legally all seated.

[Nikki Heyman]

Jun 29, 2017 11:34:43 GMT -5 Futureraven: Beelzebruv said:

Jun 28, 2017 19:45:23 GMT -5 Nikki Heyman said:

I've watched a couple of documentaries about this, what a clusterf*** that was....

I don't know much about setups at the soccer stadiums, but that end of the "pitch" looked really odd to me. Standing room only with a guardrail here and there?

That's how it was for like, 90 years, stadiums were mainly standing. Cheaper, so working class people could get in, and you can fit more people into the same space.

Seats were for more well off people in other areas. Some stadiums in other countries have kind of hybrid seated/standing areas. But after this and other incidents, English stadiums are legally all seated.

I went back to watch "Hillsborough: how they buried the truth" and it was horribly handled. Glad to see some justice finally coming through.

[Nickybojelais]

28 years too late

[Seth Drakin of Monster Crap]

There was an ESPN documentary on the subject that was great and depressing

[Hit Girl]

The fact it has taken this long is a disgrace in itself. No one should have had to suffer as much as the families have. It was disgraceful enough that their loved ones were unlawfully killed due to utter negligence and failure by the police, but to then have them smeared in a hideous example of political/police/media collusion was an atrocity. Personally I've always felt that the footballing authorities at that time, namely the FA and the Football League, have also got away with their own reponsibility in the disaster, by allowing football clubs in that era to have inescapable stands with metal fences with spikes on the top around the pitch, when the Bradford fire happened just four years earlier.