Warrington (UK): Hundreds of relatives of the 96 Liverpool football supporters who died in the 1989 Hillsborough stadium disaster filled a courtroom yesterday for the start of fresh inquests into their deaths.


Donna Miller, whose brother Paul Carlile died in the 1989 disaster, holds a picture of her late brother. Pic/AFP 

Emotions ran high as families, who have fought for two decades to overturn the original verdicts of accidental death, and dozens of lawyers, gathered in a purpose-built court on a business park outside Warrington, east of Liverpool.