Relatives vow to prove club electrics caused Stardust fire

Relatives of the Stardust victims are to reveal evidence they say will show the fire was caused by problems with the club’s electrics.

They are planning to hold a press conference tomorrow, the 33rd anniversary of the disaster which killed 48 young people and injured more than 200 others on St Valentine’s Night in 1981.

Geraldine Foy, an independent researcher who has worked with the Stardust Victims Committee for the past 12 years, said the evidence would, once and for all, refute the conclusions of the two official inquiries, the first of which blamed the fire on arson and the second which said the cause could not be established.