The Home Office has announced a review of failures in the original medical examinations of people killed at Hillsborough, which led to the first inquest finding that their injuries were irreversible by 3.15pm on the day of the disaster.
The pathology review, chaired by the forensic science expert Glenn Taylor, has been set up in response to one of 25 recommendations in a 2017 report by Bishop James Jones. Jones was chair of the Hillsborough Independent Panel, which in 2012 published damning criticisms of the original pathology, and his 2017 report, following the new inquests, was aimed at avoiding any repeat of the injustice suffered by the bereaved families.
