Funding for Hillsborough match commander to fight possible prosecution

Hillsborough match commander David Duckenfield is to get funding to fight possible prosecution on charges of gross negligence manslaughter.

News of the development came on Monday at a hearing at Preston Crown Court, sitting at the Royal Courts of Justice in London.

A judge has made an order that the former chief superintendent qualifies for legal representation for High Court proceedings next year.

At a previous case management hearing on November 24, Mr Justice William Davis heard from a lawyer acting for Duckenfield free of charge that there was no funding to oppose a Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) application for a stay on prosecution to be lifted.

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