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Must add that it's quite telling that it wasn't a unanimous verdict.
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what does it telll you?
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Ok I'm wrong,
My opinion is irrelevant in the end I think Bradford raised the flag about the risk associated with penning in spectators. Any risk assessor would have that at the top of thier assessment. I think the reason it wasn't had a lt to do with how football was perceived back then by the vast majority. |
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They didn't have to foresee anything. For negligent manslaughter there are four requirements: that a duty of care is owed, that the duty was breached, that the breach caused death and that the negligence that led to the breach was gross (a blatant disregard to the life and safety of others to such a degree that it requires punishment).
To me the first three criteria are very obviously fulfilled, the fourth I can understand some doubt but for me it is fulfilled also. |
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Me too. Yes, the police made mistakes but those fans weren't unlawfully killed in my opinion.
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Is overdue justice -- justice?
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No you are not wrong. Nobody could have foreseen that on that day those events would have collided to cause tragedy. But these events usually are a perfect storm of a number of unlikely things coming together and causing tragedy.
I think Bradford raised the flag about the risk associated with penning in spectators. Any risk assessor would have that at the top of thier assessment. I think the reason it wasn't had a lt to do with how football was perceived back then by the vast majority. An eye for an eye is not always justice in my world |
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Justice at last.
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I would just like to think that if it happened to me, I would not be pursuing prosecutions of people who did not deliberately mean any harm to my loved one.
An eye for an eye is not always justice in my world Nobody's asking for an eye for an eye either, nobody wants Duckenfield to be crushed to death. What they want is the truth and for justice to be served. If that involves prosecutions then so be it. If I hit someone with a car accidentally I don't mean them any harm but harm has been caused and it is likely that I will have to answer for causing that harm. |
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I'd agree with that even though i'm not a football fan. I could never understand the mentality behind crowds packed on to terraces standing behind metal bars, yet peculiarly for some that was what they wanted.
Perhaps some footie fans from bygone days can explain the 'attraction' of that as i'm afraid i never could understand it. ![]() If the Taylor report was written today the conclusions would be exactly the same, and the outcome - all seater stadiums - would be exactly the same. Taylor would not be suggesting "safe standing" areas to placate individuals who want to stand next to a numbered seat which is bolted in the upright position to create 3% more "atmosphere". We are fortunate that Taylor had much more on his mind than any trivial priorities. |
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I would just like to think that if it happened to me, I would not be pursuing prosecutions of people who did not deliberately mean any harm to my loved one.
An eye for an eye is not always justice in my world but then if your 'loved one' was painted as something that you knew they weren't, and the authorities were lying and then lying some more to cover their arses, you might not have quite the same attitude |
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Let's be honest, the result was only going to come back one way regardless. Could you imagine the public response had the jury delivered a different verdict? Hardly the fairest, most objective of trials, was it?
2 - So is it fair that 96 innocent lives were lost due to failings on the security of that day, ran by the police? 3 - Is it fair that that red top scum falsified the goings on of the incident to make the fans look like it was their fault? 4 - Is it fair that the families of those 96 have had to wait 25 years for justice? I could go on but I think the story and all that evidence speaks for itself. |
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I would just like to think that if it happened to me, I would not be pursuing prosecutions of people who did not deliberately mean any harm to my loved one.
An eye for an eye is not always justice in my world |
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I think after Bradford it was very obvious indeed that penning spectators in was an accident (of some sort) waiting to happen.
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The families may well have thought like you at the time but if you read up on the subject you'll see that what happened afterwards changed the issue altogether.
Who is to say that would not have happened anyway - but to many it became a one-eyed obsession and a lost life of their own That's the real tragedy for me |
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I would just like to think that if it happened to me, I would not be pursuing prosecutions of people who did not deliberately mean any harm to my loved one.
An eye for an eye is not always justice in my world And a drunk driver doesn't deliberately mean any harm. |
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I will never believe that anyone could foresee what would happen as result of their actions on that day, therefore I will never believe that people were "killed".
I'm with the 2 out of 9 on that one. What I believe is not important in the great scheme of things But surely if you see the pen was already full then opening a bigger gate to let more people in would be trouble. Its not just that but its the aftermath that made it worse. People were literally begging authorities for help through those gates and there pleas were ignored. Had they been listened to....96 may have been less. And to have people cover all sorts of errors up to cover their own backsides is unreal. The list of issues in the aftermath is endless so it is understandable the families wanted justice. All those families wanted was justice, to have their loved ones not painted as mindless thugs, to have authorities admit they lied, lied and lied some more |
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Agree with the findings,but some of the boozed up ticketless fans that arrived late should have been added to the list.
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It doesn't take a genius to work out that if you try and fill something that is already full with no relief, something will eventually give. Even the police, often not the sharpest tools in the box, ought to have known this.
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I will never believe that anyone could foresee what would happen as result of their actions on that day, therefore I will never believe that people were "killed".
I'm with the 2 out of 9 on that one. What I believe is not important in the great scheme of things So frankly your opinion is completely worthless. |
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Yawn!! Yawn! Now the relatives have got what they wanted, they should move on and there should absolutely be no prosecutions. It won't bring the 96 back. Most of the country is sick to the back teeth of hearing the H word.
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Me too. Yes, the police made mistakes but those fans weren't unlawfully killed in my opinion.
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From the David Conn article in The Guardian. This was a tragedy just waiting to happen.
Duckenfield failed to do basic preparation for the semi-final. He did not study relevant paperwork, including the force’s major incident procedure, and signed off the operational plan two days after taking over, before he had even visited the ground. He turned up to command the semi-final, he admitted, knowing very little about Hillsborough’s safety history: about the crushes at the 1981 and 1988 semi-finals, or that the approach to the Leppings Lane end was a “natural geographical bottleneck” to which Mole carefully managed supporters’ entry. Duckenfield admitted he had not familiarised himself in any detail with the ground’s layout or capacities of its different sections. He did not know the seven turnstiles, through which 10,100 Liverpool supporters with standing tickets had to be funnelled to gain access to the Leppings Lane terrace, opened opposite a large tunnel leading straight to the central pens, three and four He did not even know that the police were responsible for monitoring overcrowding, nor that the police had a tactic, named after a superintendent, John Freeman, of closing the tunnel when the central pens were full, and directing supporters to the sides. He admitted his focus before the match had been on dealing with misbehaviour, and he had not considered the need to protect people from overcrowding or crushing. |
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When a man has to look at next days Daily Mirror (or Sun) and realise that the whole of the front page and back page is a freaking huge image of his 2 daughters - in a cage - as they take the final few breaths of their lives......as they have the air squeezed out of them by the weight that no human can survive.....then I say that he gets to decide when enough time has passed to remember or to forget.
25 years? Long enough? He gets to decide. Not you. Or me. 50 years? He gets to decide. |
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Walterwhite:
“Why the hell have you brought the behaviour of fans and holliganism into a thread on Hillsborough?” You: it is relevant though |
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Perhaps some footie fans from bygone days can explain the 'attraction' of that as i'm afraid i never could understand it.