Hung jury in trial of Hillsborough tragedy police chief

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Retired chief superintendent David Duckenfield has been charged with 95 counts of gross negligence manslaughter for the deaths of 95 Liverpool fans in 1989.

Blast from the past: Police help ferry the injured away from the Hillsborough football stadium on April 15, 1989.

Nearly 30 years to the day after the tragedy in the northern city of Sheffield, the judge in the trial of retired chief superintendent David Duckenfield discharged jurors who could not decide on 95 counts of gross negligence manslaughter. There is no manslaughter charge over the death of supporter Anthony Bland, as he died almost four years later and under the law in 1989 it is now “out of time” to be prosecuted.

The jury, comprising six men and six women, had entered their eighth day of deliberations when they found Graham Mackrell, 69, guilty.The Crown Prosecution Service , England’s state prosecutors, has indicated it will seek his retrial.But the defence argued the case was “breathtakingly unfair” and said the defendant had “tried to do the right thing”.

 

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