e-Petition: 50,000 still needed
Over 49,000 people have signed an e-petition calling for a new inquest into the death of Kevin Williams at Hillsborough but 51,000 more signatures are still required before Thursday.
Anne Williams, who lost 15-year-old Kevin at the FA Cup semi-final in 1989, started the e-petition as part of an appeal into overturning the accidental death verdict placed on her son.
Mrs Williams claims Kevin was still alive at 4pm and did not die from traumatic asphyxia. Original inquests into the disaster ruled all the victims were dead by 3.15pm.
Her calls to the Attorney General have so far been rejected on three separate occasions.
"I want a fresh inquest for Kevin and I want it to run up until 4pm when he died," she said.
"Kevin was not brain dead at 3.15pm as they said he was and we can prove that he did not die of trauma asphyxia. He had different injuries.
"Witness statements have been suppressed so the jury did not know what actually happened to Kevin.
"Kevin was saveable, but they cordoned off the care on the day. Kevin was pulled out at 3.28pm and he was alive then.
"There was an off-duty police officer who found a pulse at 3.37pm and he tried to flag an ambulance down.
"I want the Attorney General to look at the evidence again and send Kevin's case back to the divisional court recommending a new inquest into the death of my son."
Anne needs 100,000 e-petition signatures by January 19 this year so that the issue can be debated in parliament.
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