MPs set to debate cause of Hillsborough victim’s death

MPs set to debate cause of Hillsborough victim’s death The mother of a Hillsborough disaster victim has reached 100,000 signatures on her online petition to get a coroner’s inquiry into the death of her son- meaning that it is eligible for debate in the House of Commons. Anne Williams, 59, launched the online campaign to get justice for her son Kevin, who died at the age 15 in the tragedy. Inquests found that Kevin died from traumatic asphyxia, though his mother refutes that ruling. “Kevin did not die from traumatic asphixia or in an accident,” she said. “I will not pick up his death certificate until we get the course of death put right and the accidental death verdict struck down.” Anne Williams claims that her son “does not relate” to an original ruling by coroner Dr Stefan Popper that all Hillsborough victims had died by 3:15pm. “I want the Attorney General to look at the evidence again and send Kevin's case back to the divisional...

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‘Salvage’ victim identified by sister

Interesting story of an identification based on tattoos..... The tattoos on the body of a man who was killed and placed inside a drum led to the victim’s identification. More than a week after the body was found in Pasay City, the older sister of Armin Jocobo, a resident of Zamora Street in Pandacan, Manila, identified the victim through the tattoos on his leg. Lea Mallari told Pasay City police investigators that she was watching a news program on Wednesday night when photos of the victim were flashed. “I saw the tattoos on the arms and legs and remembered that the names ‘Mario Alexis’ and ‘Allan Junior’ were tattooed on my brother,” she said. According to her, she never looked for her brother whose body was found on January 11 because she thought all the while that he was just staying with a friend on M. de la Cruz in Pasay City. “He told me that he was going to Pasay City to visit a friend,” Mallari said. Jocobo had been stabbed to death.—Jeannette...

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