SHEFFIELD –
The British justice on Wednesday six people have been charged in connection with the stadionramp at Hillsborough in Sheffield in 1989. This came 96 football fans to life.
Among the accused is the former police officer David Duckenfield, who was in charge of the police during the disaster. Him is manslaughter by gross negligence charged in 95 cases. The other accused other police officers and a security employee at the stadium. A lawyer is being persecuted because of obstruction of justice.
Duckenfield said at the time that fans and a gate of the Hillsborough stadium had forced so to a lot of people on the stand had come. In 2015 he only admitted that he had lied. “Everyone knew the truth, that we have the fences were opened”, he said.
The stadionramp in Hillsborough is the worst sportramp in British history.