The justice secretary said that he will consult on expanding legal aid for families bereaved through public disaster and terrorist incidents.
The government has apologised for taking six years to respond to a 2017 report into the experiences of the bereaved families of 97 Liverpool FC fans who died in 1989.
In November 2017, former bishop of Liverpool, the Rt. Rev. James Jones, had set out 25 learning points in his report “The Patronising Disposition of Unaccountable Power” following inquests into the deaths of the fans who died at the 1989 FA Cup semi-final in Sheffield.
Families of those who died, the local Liverpool community, and survivors have always rejected the police’s official version of events, which blamed fans’ drunken behaviour for the police’s own errors.
In 1991 an inquest ruled the deaths of the fans as accidental. After years of campaigning by families, that ruling of accidental death was quashed in a High Court challenge in 2012, sparking a new…
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