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New Scrutiny Of Police Role At Hillsborough
9:59am UK, Tuesday January 26, 2010
Mike McCarthy, North of England correspondent
The Home Office is set to announce that an expert on the abuse of power by police will serve on a panel examining their role in the Hillsborough disaster.
The police were criticised in a report into the disaster by Lord Chief Justice Taylor
Professor of Criminology Phil Scraton is likely to represent families bereaved by the 1989 tragedy, which left 96 people dead.
For his doctorate Professor Scraton wrote about "the use and abuse of police powers" in the coal dispute and inner city riots of the 1980s.
Katy Jones, the producer of a television drama-documentary about the disaster, is also expected to be named as one of the panel members.
There has been some behind-the-scenes negotiations about the make-up of the panel in recent weeks.
Sky sources say it will also include a senior medical expert and a former senior police officer.
No one has ever been prosecuted
Former Culture Secretary Andy Burnham announced last year that a body would be established to examine previously unseen documents relating to the disaster.
Many of them will come from police archives.
Mr Burnham, now Health Secretary, was heckled when he addressed a congregation of Liverpool supporters at a Hillsborough memorial event at Anfield stadium last year.
Ninety-six Liverpool fans were crushed to death at Sheffield Wednesday's stadium on April 15, 1989, as they attended their club's FA Cup semi-final tie against Nottingham Forest.
An inquiry into the disaster, led by Lord Chief Justice Taylor, criticised South Yorkshire Police's handling of fans as they entered the stadium.
Due to the build-up of fans outside the stadium as kick-off approached, the police opened an exit gate, meaning thousands of fans poured through the same entrance to the terraces of Hillsborough's Leppings Lane End.
The failure to close the entrance to the central sections of the stand, once the exit gate had been opened, was highlighted as the immediate cause of the disaster in Lord Taylor's interim report.
Standing terraces were phased out in the top division of English and Scottish football in the wake of his inquiry.
Despite pressure from victims' families, no individual or organisation has ever been prosecuted over the disaster.
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New Scrutiny Of Police Role At Hillsborough
9:59am UK, Tuesday January 26, 2010
Mike McCarthy, North of England correspondent
The Home Office is set to announce that an expert on the abuse of power by police will serve on a panel examining their role in the Hillsborough disaster.
The police were criticised in a report into the disaster by Lord Chief Justice Taylor
Professor of Criminology Phil Scraton is likely to represent families bereaved by the 1989 tragedy, which left 96 people dead.
For his doctorate Professor Scraton wrote about "the use and abuse of police powers" in the coal dispute and inner city riots of the 1980s.
Katy Jones, the producer of a television drama-documentary about the disaster, is also expected to be named as one of the panel members.
There has been some behind-the-scenes negotiations about the make-up of the panel in recent weeks.
Sky sources say it will also include a senior medical expert and a former senior police officer.
No one has ever been prosecuted
Former Culture Secretary Andy Burnham announced last year that a body would be established to examine previously unseen documents relating to the disaster.
Many of them will come from police archives.
Mr Burnham, now Health Secretary, was heckled when he addressed a congregation of Liverpool supporters at a Hillsborough memorial event at Anfield stadium last year.
Ninety-six Liverpool fans were crushed to death at Sheffield Wednesday's stadium on April 15, 1989, as they attended their club's FA Cup semi-final tie against Nottingham Forest.
An inquiry into the disaster, led by Lord Chief Justice Taylor, criticised South Yorkshire Police's handling of fans as they entered the stadium.
Due to the build-up of fans outside the stadium as kick-off approached, the police opened an exit gate, meaning thousands of fans poured through the same entrance to the terraces of Hillsborough's Leppings Lane End.
The failure to close the entrance to the central sections of the stand, once the exit gate had been opened, was highlighted as the immediate cause of the disaster in Lord Taylor's interim report.
Standing terraces were phased out in the top division of English and Scottish football in the wake of his inquiry.
Despite pressure from victims' families, no individual or organisation has ever been prosecuted over the disaster.
