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Who was the 10 year old who died at Hillsborough? Who was the boy in a coma after Hillsborough? Who was the 15 year old who died at Hillsborough?

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Jon-Paul Gilhooley, aged 10, had been “pulled from a pile of bodies at the front of the pens of Hillsborough’s Leppings Lane terrace”, on the same day the disaster occured.

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Who was the boy in a coma after Hillsborough?

Tony Bland fell into a coma after the Hillsborough state.

Who was the 15 year old who died at Hillsborough?

Kevin Williams, 15, had died of a weak pulse at Hillsborough.

About The Hillsborough Disaster

The Hillsborough disaster was a fatal stampede that happened on April 15, 1989, at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.

It happened during the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.

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Hillsborough Disaster
Photo Credit: The Guardian

Few minutes before the game started, the Police had opened exit gate C to reduce the overcrowding effect, and this unfortunately led to an influx of football fans entering the pens.

About 97 people had died that day, with another 766 injured, the highest death record in the history of British sports.

The match was cancelled and later restaged at Old Trafford in Manchester the following month, with Liverpool winning the FA Cup.

The South Yorkshire Police (SYP) had blamed the disaster on the “football hooliganism and drunkenness of the Liverpool supporters”.

However, contrary reports showed that there was a failure of crowd control by the police.

The disaster led to the removal of fenced standing terraces in all-seater stadiums.


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