The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. The man who caused so much pain has escaped the consequences. He had no experience managing soccer matches, let alone an FA Cup semi-final. At that point, Duckenfield gave the command to open another gate to the stadium and about 2,000 fans then made their way into the ground. But he remains a liar whose claims caused hurt, anger and despair. A police doctor certified him as "unfit to undertake the duties of a police constable" and diagnosed him with "severe depression and post-traumatic stress disorder". Sue Hemming, the CPS director of legal services, reacts to the decision by issuing a scathing statement. Medical assistance at Hillsborough was woefully inadequate. The prosecution alleged Mr Duckenfield had a "personal responsibility" for what happened at the match. But this influx caused further crushing inside the stadium, with fans at the front attempting to climb onto the pitch to safety. He also rejects a prosecution application to prevent tweeting from court, sharing articles on social media or embedding video into news articles. After Duckenfield mentioned the contribution in the police control room of Bernard Murray, who was a superintendent but has since died, Menon asked him if he was seeking to blame other people. announcement by Labour minister Andy Burnham, Hillsborough Independent Panel publishes a report, Theresa May orders a new criminal investigation, The inquest jury concludes that the 96 victims were unlawfully killed. It remained open for more than five minutes. Abuse of process arguments for other defendants fails. It fuels calls for a new inquiry and is later awarded a Bafta. Last year it was confirmed no-one else would face prosecution for the unlawful killing of 96 men, women and children. Visit our corporate site www.futureplc.com Future Publishing Limited, Quay House, The Ambury, Bath BA1 1UA. Shortly before kick-off, in an attempt to ease overcrowding outside the entrance turnstiles, the police match commander, David Duckenfield, ordered exit gate C to be opened, leading to an influx of supporters entering the pens. Meanwhile, the families of six victims appeal for a judicial review application to quash the inquest verdict. And 30 years means many people, especially families, have had to constantly relive their terrible experience.". The Hillsborough Family Support Group mounts a private prosecution of Duckenfield and his deputy, superintendentBernard Murray, for manslaughter. Start your free trial. The High Court rejects an application for judicial review of the inquest verdicts brought by six representative families. 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The Sun newspaper publishes its infamous front page with the headline The Truth, blaming drunk Liverpool fans for the disaster and even accusing some of stealing from the dead and injured. The Crown Prosecution Service says changes in the evidence of two witnesses and the death of a third meant that there was no longer a realistic prospect of conviction. Yet this was not a doddery septuagenarian being persecuted inappropriately for actions long buried in the past. The trial against retired Ch Supt Donald Denton, 83, retired Det Ch Insp Alan Foster, 74, and former solicitor Peter Metcalf, 71, collapses. The Hillsborough match commander apologised to the families. The Independent Police Complaints Commission launches an investigation into an alleged cover-up by officers in the aftermath of the disaster. A jury found the former South. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. Benjamin Myers QC, defending Duckenfield, told the jury he had been a "target of blame" for the disaster. A judge lifts the historic stay of further prosecution on Mr Duckenfield, allowing new proceedings to go ahead. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. They were even more appalled when Openshaw called the defendant a poor chap after Duckenfield was forced to go to hospital with a suspected chest infection. The prosecution in the case alleged Duckenfield, 75, had a 'personal responsibility' for what happened at the match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest, when 96 people were fatally injured . Those systems failed on 15 April, 1989, and no one will ever take responsibility for that failure. Get email updates with the day's biggest stories. 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An investigation was launched after more than 1,500 police pocket notebooks relevant to the Hillsborough disaster were uncovered weeks before the trial of David Duckenfield was due to start, it. Duckenfield then lied and told FA executives that fans had broken in to the stadium. For one teacher, it was a life well-lived. Duckenfield retires on medical grounds, suffering from depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. Duckenfield said he had watched a video about the disaster, including footage of a mother having to cuddle her dead child on the dirty floor of the Hillsborough gymnasium, which the police used as a mortuary that day. "Over this period, I have had to come to terms with reality, and that is why, over the period, you might say I dug my head in the sand, didn't admit things to myself, but I am now very much older, very much wiser, and very much more understanding of the events of the day and have decided to tell the whole truth. Lord Justice McCowan says he can see no fault in the coroner for cutting off the scope of the inquests at 3.15pm because he relied on medical evidence, and refuses to quash the verdicts. Lord Justice Taylor concludes that the most fans were not drunk, nor even the worse for drink and highlights contributing factors including opening exit gates to allow fans into the ground and failing to delay kick-off. Minimal treatment would have saved many of the victims. avid Duckenfield can finally rest easily. That sets the bar very high for the prosecution. The passage of 30 years has presented challenges for everyone involved in the legal process, prosecution and defence. Lord Justice Peter Taylors interim report into the tragedy puts the blame on South Yorkshire Police. Click to reveal He said this as Dolores Steele, Barry Devonside and Trevor Hicks - all of whom lost children, all of whom gave evidence in these trials - were desperately hoping their teenagers would survive. 30 years means evidence has been corroded and some people and organisations cannot answer for their actions because they are no longer with us. Yet one thing that is crucial to remember is that today's verdict does not undo, undermine or cancel out the verdicts of those historic inquests. Duckenfield did not give evidence in the trial as the court heard he was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Christine Burke tearfully spoke from the gallery after the verdict was delivered and said that the 96 were unlawfully killed and she wants to know who is responsible, reports the Liverpool Echo. 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This is because he died more than a year and a day after his injuries were caused. It was a catastrophic and deadly error. David Duckenfield was police match commander at the Hillsborough disaster He went on trial for gross negligence manslaughter over the deaths of fans Following a retrial, he was cleared today . Evelyn Newman Duckenfield, center, died at age 81 of covid-19 on Jan 25. Despite this, the retired officer was able to walk away last week in the face of overwhelming evidence and his own admissions. On 28 November, the remaining jurors acquit Mr Duckenfield of gross negligence manslaughter, as the investigating police officer says the delay between the disaster and the trial should not have been allowed to happen. But an inquest is not a criminal court, and so it was for another jury to decide whether Mr Duckenfield's mistakes amounted to gross negligence manslaughter. The stories of personal loss and individual pain have too often been overlooked. The turnstiles became difficult to operate and people were starting to be crushed. And yet 23 minutes later he suggested it was the supporters, some of whom were dying beneath him, who were responsible. Thirty years later he remained a man who sought, via his lawyers, to do the same thing. It was the founding myth of Hillsborough. It is hard to comprehend how the relatives have maintained their dignity in the face of numerous disappointments and crass treatment from the authorities. In February 2000, both officers appeal to the Divisional Court but fail and the trial is held in Leeds between 6 June and 24 July 2000. Allan Green, the director of public prosecutions, finds there is insufficient evidence to bring criminal charges against any individual, group or corporate body. When asked if his "negligence" caused the disaster he told the inquest: "I wouldn't use the word negligence sir. Video, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. This 1992 family photo shows, from left, her son Thomas . The jury at Mr Duckenfield's original trial earlier this year failed to agree a verdict. "We firmly believe that we have done everything in our power to do right by our Steven and we walk away from this case with our dignity and our heads held high.". Following the broadcast of a television dramatisation of the Hillsborough disaster, the Home Offices Operational Policing Policy Unit writes to Michael Howard, then home secretary, saying it raises the suggestion that some of the victims were still alive at 3.30pm. The entrance had a limited number of turnstiles, of which just seven were allocated to the 10,100 fans with tickets for the standing terraces. In July 2000, Murray is acquitted after a six-week trial. A jury failed to reach a verdict in the case of David Duckenfield, the former South Yorkshire police chief superintendent and match commander on the day of the Hillsborough disaster. For the sake of the 96 innocent people who died 30 years ago, something like this should never happen again.. The acquittal of Hillsborough match commander David Duckenfield has caused shock and anger after a 30-year campaign for criminal accountability for the disaster. By November 1991, he was medically retired from South Yorkshire Police on a full pension, two years after being suspended from duty. The inquest jury finds that Hillsboroughs 96 victims were unlawfully killed and that Liverpool fans were not responsible for the disaster. Prosecutors allege Duckenfield should have taken action to close the tunnel that led to those pens, a tactic his lawyer said he and other experienced officers were unaware of, but which the court heard had been used at Hillsborough before. Sir, I am the man in overall control, he replied. What is wrong is that it has taken 30 years to get to this point. David Duckenfield, a Police Chief Superintendent, who has been accused of the death of 96 people in the tragic incident of the Hillsborough disaster, was found not guilty in charge of manslaughter. And it is not his fault those who deserved to face the same scrutiny he did will never be held accountable for the deaths of the 96. There are renewed calls for a fresh inquest or public inquiry. A Hillsborough charity music single, a version of He Aint Heavy Hes My Brother, is confirmed as Christmas Number One days later. But the jury accepted the defence case that the 75-year-old was a target of blame who was unfairly singled out for prosecution. The Crown Prosecution Service announces that six people are to be charged with offences in relation to the disaster Mr Duckenfield is charged with manslaughter and former Sheffield Wednesday club secretary Graham Mackrell for health and safety offences. Supporters were not responsible for what happened. Former Hillsborough match commander David Duckenfield at Preston Crown court. The Crown Prosecution Service has said it will seek a retrial, which Duckenfield is expected to oppose, at a hearing scheduled for 24 June. "I hid myself away and could not bear the word Hillsborough", he said. " Assistant Commissioner Rob Beckley, who was in overall command of Operation Resolve - the criminal inquiry into the disaster, acknowledged the jury "had a difficult and challenging task". Summing up the case, the judge said: "The deaths of 96 spectators, many of whom were very young, is, of course, a profound human tragedy attended by much anguish and anger which for many has not passed with time. Home secretary Theresa May orders a new criminal investigation into the disaster, Operation Resolve. Mr Duckenfield did not dispute that he ordered the opening of a gate at Hillsborough to let fans in, or that he failed to close the tunnel to the terraces which were already full. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. Duckenfield, a retired chief superintendent, 75, denied the gross negligence manslaughter of 95 Liverpool supporters at the FA Cup semi-final on April 15 1989. Read about our approach to external linking. Match commander Ch Supt David Duckenfield had ordered for an exit gate at the stadium to be opened, by the Leppings Lane turnstiles. The former police chief was barely seen or heard of in the immediate aftermath of the disaster. The retired chief . David Duckenfield, the police commander at the Hillsborough football stadium disaster, was on Thursday found not guilty of the gross negligence manslaughter of 95 Liverpool fans who were. The jury found match commander - former Ch Supt David Duckenfield - "responsible for manslaughter by gross negligence" due to a breach of his duty of care. The anniversary comes 12 days after a jury at Preston Crown Court failed to reach a verdict on the prosecution of the match commander, Ch Supt David Duckenfield, who was accused of gross negligence manslaughter, reports The Guardian. Hillsboroughs final victim, 22-year-old Tony Bland, dies after being taken off life support, pushing the death toll up to 96. The Police Complaints Authority (PCA) find there is sufficient evidence to charge them with neglect of duty but Mr Duckenfield is on sick leave during the process, and retires on medical grounds in November 1991. Duckenfield responded: Sir, I was not outside the turnstiles, but I am not in a position to dispute his view.. The inquest heard Mr Duckenfield testify he was struggling to sleep in the run-up to the 1989 Taylor Inquiry, and claimed to be drinking "half tumblers of whisky" to "find the courage" to read statements. Up to 41 of the dead might have survived had they been given oxygen. News. But then two years ago I had to force myself to look at matters and, as a result, I could only do so with the assistance of doctors. But was the regret he described at the disaster inquests the regret of having been dishonest, or the regret of having been found out? inquest verdicts brought by six representative families. Read about our approach to external linking. Duckenfield had agreed earlier that he had not acted as a reasonably competent match commander on the day, due to the mistakes he made. Solicitor Peter Metcalf, former chief superintendent Donald Denton and former detective chief inspector Alan Foster are all charged with perverting the course of justice. Gate C, leading to the Leppings Lane terraces, is opened. In 2015 at the Hillsborough Inquests he accepted that this was the direct cause of the 96 deaths. Weakest since 2012: UK house price average falls to 257,406. After the longest inquest in British history, lasting 90 days, a verdict of accidental death is returned by a majority verdict of 9-2. What has been heard here in this court will have been surprising to many, she said. Duckenfield stood trial earlier this year but the jury was discharged after failing to reach a verdict and a retrial was ordered. What is wrong is that it has taken 30 years to get to this point. The Taylor Report causes UK-wide changes to football stadiums, seeing fencing removed and standing terraces converted to seating areas at large venues. "We, the families, have fought for 30 years valiantly.". "Everybody knew the truth, the fans and police knew the truth that we'd opened the gates," he said. The jury at the inquests returned a verdict of unlawful killing, reversing the 1990 ruling of accidental deaths. 2023 BBC. The former chief superintendent of South Yorkshire police, David Duckenfield, leaves after giving evidence to the Hillsborough inquest in Warrington. More than 2,000 fans entered through exit gate C once it was opened and many headed for the tunnel ahead of them, which led to the central pens where the crush happened. Read about our approach to external linking. ", "I have no excuses. For this to happen, there needs to be accountability. 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