Stardust families to challenge official stance on reports

Families of the Stardust fire victims are preparing to seek leave for a judicial review of the Government’s continued endorsement of two reports into the fire that they say are seriously flawed.

The families want the original tribunal report into the 1981 disaster and a follow-up 2008/09 review removed from the public record. They also want a fresh inquiry into the cause of the fire instigated.

They say that the reports represent an impediment to the setting up of a new inquiry because they rely on misinformation and misinterpretation that led the initial report to state that the cause of the fire was arson and the second report to state that the first was wrong and the cause could not be known.