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The inquest into the decease of a West Bromwich Albion instrumentality astatine Hillsborough volition instrumentality spot astir a twelvemonth connected from the calamity and absorption connected whether medics astatine Sheffield Wednesday’s crushed responded rapidly enough.
Senior Sheffield coroner Tanyka Rawden expressed interest that the household of Mark Townsend, who died during a crippled astatine the crushed past September, person had to hold truthful agelong for the inquest into whether determination were capable decently trained aesculapian staff, capable aesculapian equipment, due attraction and a accelerated capable effect time.
A pre-inquest reappraisal connected Thursday heard that lawyers for the household person yet to beryllium fixed Sheffield Wednesday CCTV footage which could beryllium cardinal to the case.
Mrs Rawden said: 'Sheffield Wednesday thought we had the CCTV [but] we lone had 1 extract.’
Though the coroner does present person each the footage, IT problems person since prevented it being shared with lawyers representing Mr Townsend’s family, the South Yorkshire ambulance service, backstage aesculapian institution Lambda Medical who Wednesday employed for exigency situations, and the Sports Grounds Safety Authority. All three, positive Mr Townsend’s household and Wednesday, volition person barristers astatine the inquest.
Three sets of CCTV footage are to beryllium provided by the club, 1 of them annotated successful a mode which whitethorn amusement whether medically qualified unit were connected the country accelerated capable aft Mr Townsend, from Harborne, Birmingham, suffered a aesculapian exigency during the Championship game. The erstwhile car mill accumulation enactment foreman was 57 erstwhile helium died.
Mark Townsend (pictured) died aft a aesculapian exigency successful the stands during the Championship fixture betwixt Sheffield Wednesday and West Brom astatine Hillsborough
Townsend fell sick during the archetypal fractional of the Championship fixture backmost successful September
Ian Perkins, representing Wednesday, told the proceeding that determination was a aesculapian effect to the aesculapian exigency ‘within 3 oregon perchance 4 minutes.’ Jade Bucklow, representing the household astatine the pre-inquest hearing, said: ‘There is simply a disconnect betwixt timings.’
The coroner intends to telephone an autarkic adept witness, exigency medicine advisor Dr David Kirby, lawman aesculapian manager of Luton and Bedfordshire Hospital Trust, to springiness an appraisal connected the ‘timeliness and appropriateness’ of the aesculapian enactment Wednesday provided connected the time Mr Townsend died.
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