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deceased. But, additionally and in the alternative, they complain that the
Coroner wrongly excluded evidence of lack of care in the emergency services’
and police’s reaction to the deceased’s initial injuries, wrongly insisted on a
cut-off point of 3.15pm for the evidence heard at the main inquest (despite
evidence that the deceased were, or may have been, still alive after that time)
and wrongly failed to direct the jury on the availability of a verdict of
accidental death aggravated by lack of care or lack of care based on the
failure of the various responsible agencies to provide the deceased with
adequate medical attention after they had sustained their original injuries.
BACKGROUND TO THE INQUEST
The inquest arose out of the disaster at Hillsborough Stadium Sheffield which
occurred on 15th April 1989. On that day the semi-final of the Football
Association Cup was arranged to be played at the Stadium between the
Liverpool and Nottingham Forest Football Clubs. What happened next can
be summarised in the words of Lord Keith in his Judgment on the case of
Cooper & Others -v- Wright:
"The South Yorkshire Police Force, which was responsible for crowd control
at the match, allowed an excessively large number of intending spectators to
enter the ground at the Leppings Lane end, an area reserved for Liverpool
Supporters. They crammed into pens 3 and 4, below the West Stand, and in
the resulting crush 95 people were killed and 400 physically injured".