LONDON (AP) - British prosecutors charged a former senior police officer with manslaughter Wednesday as they announced the first criminal cases in the 1989 Hillsborough stadium disaster that left 96 people dead - many of them crushed against metal fences - and changed English soccer forever.
Slideshow UK charges 6 in Hillsborough stadium tragedy that killed 96
The families of the victims have waged a decades-long quest to seek justice for their loved ones, who they believed were unfairly blamed in the April 15, 1989, tragedy.