Herald of Free Enterprise trial collapses

Title

Herald of Free Enterprise trial collapses

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

19 Oct 1990

Year of production

1990

Play audio

To listen to the audio files, please log in.

Duration

00:02:32

Description

Simon Israel reports on the collapse of the manslaughter trial of P & O European Ferries and seven former employees, over the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster. Includes reaction from Maurice de Rohan, father of victim Alison Gaillard; press statement from solicitor of Captain David Lewry; Labour transport spokesman John Prescott calls for legal reform to allow companies to be prosecuted.

Contributors

John Prescott; Simon Israel; Maurice de Rohan

Keywords

Shipwrecks; UK; Belgium; Trials; Ferries; Seaborne disasters; Disasters (events); Manslaughter; Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster (1987); Zeebrugge; David Lewry; P & O European Ferries; Alison Gaillard

The copyright of audio recordings in the LBC / IRN Digitisation Archive is owned by Global Radio UK Ltd.