The seven women and three men on the jury were sent out at Preston Crown Court on Monday after hearing more than six weeks of evidence in the case.

Former Sheffield Wednesday secretary Graham Mackrell was found guilty of failing to discharge his duty under the Health and Safety at Work Act.

The “very many individual human tragedies” of the Hillsborough disaster have been laid bare in an emotionally-charged opening to the fresh inquests into the deaths of the 96 football fans who died.