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The Hillsborough disaster was a fatal crowd crush at a football match at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield,South Yorkshire,England,on 15 April 1989. It occurred during an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest in the two standing-only central pens within the Leppings Lane stand allocated to Liverpool supporters. Shortly before kick-off,police match commander David Duckenfield ordered exit gate C to be opened in an attempt to ease crowding,which led to an influx of supporters entering the pens. This resulted in overcrowding of those pens and the fatal crush;with a total of 97 fatalities and 766 injuries,the disaster is the deadliest in British sporting history. Ninety-four people died on the day;one more died in hospital days later,Tony Bland died in 1993,and in 2021,a 97th person died. Both Bland and the 97th victim had suffered irreversible brain damage on the day. The match was abandoned and restaged at Old Trafford in Manchester on 7 May 1989;Liverpool won and went on to win that season's FA Cup.
The Battle of Orgreave was a violent confrontation on 18 June 1984 between pickets and officers of the South Yorkshire Police (SYP) and other police forces,including the Metropolitan Police,at a British Steel Corporation (BSC) coking plant at Orgreave,in Rotherham,South Yorkshire,England. It was a pivotal event in the 1984–1985 UK miners' strike,and one of the most violent clashes in British industrial history.
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Sir Ronald Flanagan is a retired senior Northern Irish police officer. He was the Home Office Chief Inspector of Constabulary for the United Kingdom excluding Scotland. Flanagan was previously the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) since its creation in 2001 to 2002,and had been Chief Constable of its predecessor,the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) until 2001.
West Yorkshire Police,formerly the West Yorkshire Metropolitan Police,is the territorial police force responsible for policing the metropolitan county of West Yorkshire,England. It is the fourth largest territorial police force in England and Wales by number of officers.
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Bernard Hogan-Howe,Baron Hogan-Howe,is an English former police officer and was the head of London's Metropolitan Police as Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis from 2011 until 2017.
Sir Norman George Bettison,QPM is a British former police officer and the former Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police. He resigned in October 2012 amidst controversy about his role in the Hillsborough disaster,in which he was involved in the implementation of a cover-up of police errors. He remained the subject of an Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) investigation,and was charged on the 28 June 2017 with four counts of misconduct in public office. The case was dropped on 21 August 2018. Bettison's own book Hillsborough Untold (2016) contains his version of events.
Peter Wright was the Chief Constable of the South Yorkshire Police force from 1983 to 1990. During that period members of the force he commanded clashed with striking miners during the UK miners' strike (1984–85) and were responsible for the Hillsborough football ground in Sheffield on 15 April 1989 when the Hillsborough disaster occurred,where 97 fans died.
Dan Johnson is an English journalist and presenter,working as the West &South West of England correspondent for BBC News.
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