Thursday, April 16, 2015

Bradford fire: Labour’s Andy Burnham calls for fresh investigation

8:04 AM

• Burnham: ‘Original Popplewell inquiry conducted with undue haste’

• Extract: ‘Darkness fell with such speed – it was too black, there was nothing’

• Martin Fletcher: ‘Maybe the reason I’m here is to – finally – reveal the truth’

• Revealed: former Bradford chairman linked to at least eight other fires

Andy Burnham, the shadow health secretary and one of the prominent campaigners for justice from the Hillsborough tragedy, has called for a fresh investigation into the Bradford City disaster after the revelations about the club’s former chairman Stafford Heginbotham’s history with major fires.


Burnham has also joined Martin Fletcher, the author of a new book about the tragedy that killed 56 football fans at Valley Parade in May 1985, in saying that the Popplewell inquiry into the fire, led by the judge Oliver Popplewell, was unsatisfactory and “conducted with undue haste”.


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