BradfordCityStadiumFireVideoGovernment. City Leadership. Mayor of Goldsboro Mayor since 2015 Meet the City Council Find your councilmember, see agendas, minutes and videos from past. Posted By Safetygirl Good morning all. I am preparing fire warden training at the moment. I am interested in showing the Bradford Fire Video, which I originally saw. Bradford City stadium fire Police were to blame for most life lost in tragedy. The Home Secretary, Theresa May, has been told that Bradford City fans were wrongly held responsible for deaths in the stadium fire on 1. May 1. 98. 5 which killed 5. Liverpool supporters were blamed for the Hillsborough disaster four years later. A letter from lawyers Leigh Day to May, seen by The Independent, argues that police accused supporters of being slow to respond to their pleas to evacuate the main stand where the fire began, when photographic evidence demonstrates that the affected sections of it were largely empty by the time officers began their evacuation on to the pitch. The lawyers, who have urged May to initiate an independent review of the evidence, argue that police failures caused most loss of life and that the forces allegations that people obviously panicked were groundless. The accusation that fans failed to move made by Andrew Collins QC, counsel for the public inquiry into the tragedy in his opening statement in June 1. Liverpool fans for the Hillsborough disaster, May is told. Download Software Updates Sccm 2012 Software. PNG' alt='Bradford City Stadium Fire Video' title='Bradford City Stadium Fire Video' />Find the latest sports news and articles on the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, NCAA college football, NCAA college basketball and more at ABC News. Lets be honest, following City can be a bit of a rollercoaster ride read about all the highs, and the lows, of our glorious history. But there is no need for a British Houellebecq sadly, as I would readily volunteer all this has already come to pass. George Galloway became Bradford Wests MP. The lawyers argue that the impugning of fans, which was not challenged at the inquiry, illustrates the flawed and superficial examination of evidence in the original five and a half day investigation into the disaster, which concluded that the blaze was caused accidentally when a dropped cigarette ignited rubbish below the wooden stand. Leigh Day point out that the inquiry was convened so hastily that there were no lawyers representing the families of the victims to cross examine the testimony of West Yorkshire Police, Bradford City, West Yorkshire County Council which had public safety responsibilities and the Health and Safety Executive. The only legal representation for families was what Leigh Day call the ad hoc role of a barrister instructed by the Bradford Law Society, who questioned only 2. In a 2. 0 page letter, the lawyers argue that the inquirys lack of intellectual and investigative rigour meant that there was no consideration of what they claim were serial flaws in the police response. Those include the alleged failure of the commanding officer, Chief Inspector Charles Mawson, to investigate radio reports of a fire until his deputy prompted him an alleged delay of three minutes 1. Bradford city centre to meet three police radio requests for fire brigade back up. This meant the brigade, stationed three minutes from the stadium, did not arrive until nine minutes after the fire had broken out. West Yorkshire Police have admitted to Leigh Day and fire survivor Martin Fletcher, whom they represent, that there were failings and have referred themselves to the Independent Police Complaints Commission. The letter argues that the West Yorkshire force failed in a duty to inform Sir Oliver Popplewell, the High Court judge who presided over the inquiry, of at least eight fires in premises owned by or connected to the then Bradford City chairman Stafford Heginbotham, who died in 1. This, despite the fact that the pattern of blazes was contemporaneously known both by Bradford residents and the local media. A report by the investigative journalist Paul Foot, published in the Daily Mirror of 3. May 1. 98. 5, headlined Fire Jinx in Bradford, is cited to May. But the demands for a  re examination of the evidence stretch well beyond the Heginbotham issue, which features in a book by Fletcher, who lost his father, brother, uncle and grandfather to the fire. The detailed case laid out for May charts how the assumption that a cigarette caused the fire is, at least, questionable given expert evidence heard by Popplewell. The fire killed 5. She is also told that a stadium licensing system recommended after the Ibrox disaster in 1. Labour Government enshrined in law in 1. Leigh Day cite inquiry QC Collins own admission in 1. Dublin nightclub fire killed 4. Kings Cross fire, which claimed 3. Collins admitted that the police have not had time or manpower to see everyone who may have something of value to contribute to this investigation which may help to explain material matters. The lawyers conclude While we recognise, of course, that these events took place 3. Hillsborough stadium in 1. May has said she will consult with other Government departments before responding in due course. The West Yorkshire police said last week that they had not considered criminality as part of their investigation an astonishing admission. They admitted that they took the contents of Fletchers work on Bradford very seriously. A charge of gross negligence manslaughter had been available back then but was disregarded. News Tribune Central MO Breaking News.