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Breaking Duckenfield has immunity lifted.

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dockers_strike Grand Master

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Police match commander david duckenfield has had his immunity to prosecution lifted and will now face trial for gross misconduct and manslaughter.

 

The match commander on the day of the Hillsborough Disaster David Duckenfield will face trial for the manslaughter by gross negligence of 95 football supporters, a judge has ruled.

The decision to prosecute the former Chief Superintendent was made by Sir Peter Openshaw at Preston Crown Court who ruled to lift a stay on his prosecution.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-44656778

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Nelly-Szoboszlai Grand Master

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Being reported a lot on social media. Without the disclaimer to not comment in a way which might suggest guilt/jeopardise the fairness of any trial.

 

It's probably nothing, but I'm naturally cynical when it comes to Hillsborough, so I wouldn't be surprised if it was by design and we can expect legal arguments about it being impossible to get a fair trial due to the disaster being in the public eye for the past 30 years.

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This always feels like a subject I shouldn’t post on due to not wanting to intrude, not having a direct connection, what the people who do

have lived with and fought for over so many years and so on.

 

But, what a day of impossibly mixed emotions this must be, not least for Tony Bland’s family. Solidarity with them all, simply can’t imagine what it must have been and continue to be like.

 

Respect doesn’t even come close for how they have all conducted themselves.

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