NY Times · Jun 29, 2018
Hillsborough Match Commander to Face 95 Manslaughter Counts
Injured soccer fans on the field at Hillsborough Stadium in 1989. The disaster left 96 people dead.LONDON — Nearly three decades after the worst stadium disaster in the history of British soccer, a police commander will face 95 counts of manslaughter in the deaths of soccer fans who were trampled and crushed at a match in England in 1989, prosecutors said on Friday.
The decision by a judge to proceed to trial in the case of David Duckenfield represents the latest victory in a long quest for justice by the families of the dead, who included 37 teenagers. Mr. Duckenfield, then a chief superintendent in the South Yorkshire Police, was in charge of security for the match.