Zeebrugge inquest verdict

Title

Zeebrugge inquest verdict

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

Oct 1987

Year of production

1987

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Duration

00:02:19

Description

Report on verdict of an inquest (08/10/87) into the Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster, after she sank in the North Sea on 06/03/87; reports on summing up of coroner, Richard Sturt; includes interview with John Bridge, lawyer for assistant boatswain, Mark Stanley; Chairman of Action Group, Peter Spooner; Lynette Cardley, survivor. Reporter not identified.

Contributors

John Bridge; Lynette Cardley; Peter Spooner

Keywords

Deaths; Shipwrecks; UK; Belgium; Inquests; Ferries; Seaborne disasters; North Sea; Disasters (events); P & O; Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster (1987); Zeebrugge; Townsend Thoresen; Mark Stanley; Leslie Sabel; Richard Sturt; Lynette Cardley; John Kirby

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