New Cross fire inquest
- Title
- New Cross fire inquest
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Press conference
- TX Date
- 9 Jul 1982
- Year of production
- 1982
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- Duration
- 00:02:17
- Description
- Tim Crook reports on an inquest into a fire in New Cross, South London, on 18/01/81 where 13 young black people died during a birthday party. The jury returned an open verdict but the victims’ relatives believe the fire was started deliberately in a racist attack. Includes interviews with relatives: Velvetina Francis, mother of Gerry Francis and Ena Gooding, mother of Andrew Gooding; campaigner John La Rose. (The victims were: Humphrey Geoffrey Brown, Peter Campbell, Gerry Paul Francis, Andrew Gooding, Roseline Henry, Patricia Johnson, Patrick Cummings, Owen Thompson, Steve Collins, Lloyd Hall, Glenton Powell, Yvonne Ruddock, Paul Ruddock).
- Contributors
- Tim Crook; Velvetina Francis; Ena Gooding; John La Rose
- Keywords
- Deaths; London; Fires; Adolescents; Black peoples; Inquests; Racially motivated crime; Arson; Verdicts; New Cross; New Cross Fire (1981); Andrew Gooding; Gerry Francis; Velvetina Francis; Ena Gooding
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