![]() The inquiry has come under scrutiny because of Martin Fletcher’s book about the tragedy that killed 56 people, including his brother, father, uncle and grandfather, when the timber stand at Valley Parade caught fire during a game against Lincoln City. ![]() ![]() If we had wanted to have an inquiry like the Saville inquiry, which lasted five years, I’m sure we could have done but we didn’t see any need to.” The actual public hearing took only five days but we went back to the Home Office and had more evidence and we produced our inquiry in July. It was all looked into by the fire people. We had nothing else and there wasn’t anything else. “We had all the evidence that was available. “If we had it for 100 days the evidence wouldn’t have been any different,” Popplewell said. Popplewell, in a lengthy interview with the Guardian, rejected any criticism of his work and accused Andy Burnham, the shadow health secretary, of “climbing on a bandwagon” by calling for a new inquiry during an election. The hearing set out some of the ground rules for the inquiry, which started on 5 June, and these state that “rules of evidence would not be strictly complied with” and “hearsay would be acceptable to summarise evidence and save time”. ![]() Other paperwork from a preliminary hearing chaired by Popplewell on, 12 days after the fire, shows the witness testimony was expected to run for 10 days. ![]()
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