Remembrance & Memorials : The Hillsborough Disaster of 1989
source: BBC News
originally published: April 2024
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From all of our hundreds of Remembrance Calendar entries, we particularly feature certain cases that were of notable historical significance.
The Hillsborough Disaster
At Hillsborough, the lives of 97 people were cut short.
On the anniversary of the 1989 disaster [2024] we remembered those who died, through their families’ personal statements about them, as reported by David Conn.
Families of the 96 people who had died at Hillsborough at the time of the second inquest made powerfully moving personal statements about their loved ones to open the court proceedings, describing their personalities, achievements, passions; how loved they were, and how deeply they were missed.
As the jury return their verdict at the inquest into the lethal crush at Hillsborough in 1989, David Conn analyses the evidence with the help of recently released footage from the day, to build a picture of how 96 Liverpool supporters died at the Sheffield stadium, and how it has taken so long for the truth of their story to emerge.
The profiles [listed in the article] for each of those 96 people are reports on their families’ personal statements, and were written in 2016 shortly before the inquest concluded.
Andrew Devine died in 2021, and the coroner at his inquest ruled that he was the 97th person unlawfully killed at Hillsborough. The Devine family made a statement at that time, paying tribute to Andrew, which is reported in his profile.
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