But now, in this criminal trial, those supporters, the victims, were blamed again, and Duckenfield was found not guilty. It was grim that even as Hillsborough families were enduring this retrial, families bereaved by the Grenfell Tower disaster received the interim findings from Martin Moore-Bick’s public inquiry. Then, when his conclusions are finally published, the Grenfell families are likely to face the same realisation as the Hillsborough families: that a public inquiry’s conclusions are essentially meaningless, ignored in the legal proceedings that follow. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Members of the Hillsborough family support group, including Margaret Aspinall, centre, after the verdict in the trial of David Duckenfield. Despite all the failures of the system over the decades, and the deep flaws in the Duckenfield trial, Openshaw carried himself in that Preston courtroom with an air of solemn infallibility.

Source: The Guardian December 06, 2019 06:56 UTC