David Dukenfield

Duckenfield like all his gutless cronies will plead not guilty.

Let us hope he/they do the right thing and plead guilty. Agreed the whole issue should have been effectively dealt with decades ago. Difficult to see how any jury would not now convict as enough evidence in public domain never mind what might be rehashed at  new trial. Could you get 12 jurors with a clear and open mind, I am not sure, and in there lies a moral if not legal problem. 

If I remember correctly Dukinfield replaced the guy who was the regular commander, but unfortunately he had little or no experience in doing the job in front of him. He made many errors which resulted in the carnage that ensued. I think the real culprits are the people that falsified evidence and tried to divert blame to innocent supporters. To me the S*n and Kelvin McKenzie should be in the dock also.

wrong decision for me, what is the point of potentially jailing this man after all these years?
terrible decisions were made on that day but to charge him with manslaughter - why, who does it benefit?
seems very vindictive and like offering up a sacrificial lamb to the families of the dead. Of course i can't even begin to think of their pain and anguish, but this just seems wrong to me.

Some posts removed including the original quote, which one person has reported as offensive.

Not sure if it was offensive, but certainly insensitive.

The thread is about the match day commander, please keep it on topic.

Aside from being offensive, insensitive or whatever, it was also an inaccurate comment, as even Mr Duckinfield now admits.

What a very odd post. For starters everyone who has ever been charged with murder or manslaughter has by default been after the event, and often by many years due to various reasons. But justice means that if you are responsible for the avoidable deaths of anyone one (let alone 96 people) then the law must be applied. Or is it the case that if a son, daughter, brother, sister, parent of your own had been unlawfully killed by the actions of someone else and you knew who they were you would be  relaxed about that person getting off with it, continuing to live as if nothing had happened, continuing to get their large pension while you were still grieving for the loss (because that never ends)? If you can honestly say yes then you either aren't human or you really haven't thought through the issues here.

Besides, the law should be about holding criminals to account, even ones who made mistakes rather than pre-meditated acts. H&S law is the same, and about holding organisations and individuals to account for avoidable accidents or avoidable deaths, it is what separates us from a gangster state, as does not having anyone, including police officers, above the law themselves. 

Duckenfield is a nasty horrible individual in my opinion, a proven liar and someone content to go along with blaming the victims for his crimes. He deserves to rot for the rest of his miserable life in prison, but he is not alone in his guilt and those that were active in the deliberate flasification of evidence, the destruction of police notebooks, the altering of statements, the lies given to the media, all of those people should also be charged too, because while the families of the 96 have finally had the truth, they are still waiting for justice. 

Your post wasn't deemed offensive, however you quoted the post that was reported, therefore your post was removed along with the original.