The South Yorkshire police officer in charge of the 1989 FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at Hillsborough when 96 Liverpool supporters died did not "know what he was looking for" when assessing whether the ground was overcrowded, his own barrister has suggested.
John Beggs QC said that it is "valid" to ask whether Ch Supt David Duckenfield and his fellow senior officers Roger Marshall and Roger Greenwood should have been in command at Sheffield Wednesday's football ground that day, April 15 1989. Duckenfield was appointed 19 days before the match, had never commanded a sell-out, capacity football crowd before, and, Beggs said, evidence will show he received "very little, if any, training".
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