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Anne Williams
Anne Williams continued to fight hard for a further 16 years for a second inquiry.
She levelled several legal attacks at the first Hillsborough inquest, questioning the
credibility of its findings. She formed a pressure group “Hope For Hillsborough”,
subsequently merging it into the “Hillsborough Justice Campaign”, eventually
becoming chair of the latter. Sadly, Anne died of cancer in 2013, but the campaign for
justice continued.
Judith Moritz, a journalist for the BBC, said that although Williams had no legal
training, to talk to her, one would have thought that she had trained for years.
28 years after the disaster, the second coroner’s inquests were finally held in 2016
and ruled that the supporters were unlawfully killed due to grossly negligent failures
by police and ambulance services to fulfil their duty of care. The inquests also found
that the design of the stadium contributed to the crush, and that supporters were not
to blame for the dangerous condition. In June 2017, six people were charged with
offences including manslaughter by gross negligence, misconduct in public office and
perverting the course of justice for their actions during and after the disaster.
Had Anne Williams remained silent in her grief it is questionable if the truth would
have ever emerged.
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