Thursday, April 16, 2015

Police will consider fresh evidence into 1985 Bradford fire

FILE - This is a May 14, 1985 file photo of Bradford City Football Club chairman Stafford Heginbotham, left, as he stands with Justice Oliver Popplewell, in front of the stand which was burnt at Bradford's Valley Parade ground. Popplewell who investigated the fire spent more than half-an-hour touring the ground. Police said Thursday April 16, 2015 they will consider fresh evidence relating to the deaths of 56 people in a fire at Bradford city's stadium in 1985, after new allegations were published about one of the country’s worst sporting disasters. A book, written by a man who escaped the blaze at Bradford City’s Valley Parade stadium, alleges that was one of nine fires at businesses owned by or associated with the club’s then-chairman Stafford Heginbotham . (PA/File via AP) UNITED KINGDOM OUT BRADFORD, England (AP) — The circumstances surrounding one of England's worst sporting disasters could be re-examined following allegations that the fire at a soccer stadium which killed 56 people in 1985 may have been started deliberately.








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