Herald of Free Enterprise trial collapses

Title

Herald of Free Enterprise trial collapses

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

20 Oct 1990

Year of production

1990

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Duration

00:03:25

Description

Following the collapse of the manslaughter trial of P & O European Ferries and seven former employees, Leon Robins looks back at the Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster near Zeebrugge in which 193 people died. Includes archive interviews with relative waiting for news of survivors; PM Margaret Thatcher; survivor Terry Mead; Max Potterton, crew member; and survivor Andrew Parker speaking on the effects 7 months afterwards. From Invicta Radio.

Contributors

Margaret Thatcher; Invicta Radio; Andrew Parker; Leon Robins; Terry Mead

Keywords

Deaths; Shipwrecks; UK; Belgium; Trials; Ferries; Seaborne disasters; Disasters (events); Manslaughter; Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster (1987); Zeebrugge; Townsend Thoreson

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