A Home Office minister has signalled his backing for bereaved families of the 97 Hillsborough victims to receive parity of funding for legal support at inquests and public inquiries.
Lord Sharpe of Epsom told Parliament he agreed with a Labour demand for so-called “equality of arms” in the wake of the long fight for justice by relatives of the Hillsborough disaster victims. A total of 97 football fans died as a result of a crush at a match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest on April 15 1989.
They were unlawfully killed amid a number of police errors, an inquest jury ruled in 2016. The Government said this week it would publish “in the course of this spring” its long-awaited response to a report by the Rt Revd James Jones, former bishop of Liverpool, into the experiences of the Hillsborough families.
