Britain’s attorney general said Tuesday he would apply for fresh inquests into the deaths of 96 Liverpool supporters during the 1989 Hillsborough football stadium disaster.
Dominic Grieve said he would ask the High Court to have the verdicts of the original inquests into Britain’s worst ever sporting disaster quashed so that new inquests can be held.
The application comes a month after a damning report revealed that police had altered at least 164 witness statements in an attempt to divert blame onto Liverpool supporters for the stadium crush.
“I will apply to have every one of those 96 inquests quashed,” Grieve told parliament. “I believe that these deaths, arising as they do from a common chain of events, should all be considered afresh.” Britain’s police watchdog, the Independent Police Complaints Commission, said on Friday that it would launch the biggest ever independent inquiry into potential police wrongdoing over the disaster.
