Original Stardust disaster inquest 'abject failure'

Phil Scraton, Professor Emeritus at Queens University Belfast, who authored a damning new report into the coronial process in Ireland, said the original Stardust inquest was an 'abject failure'.

The original inquest into the Stardust disaster in 1981 was an “abject failure” and the initial judicial report was appalling, the man who uncovered the truth about the Hillsborough football tragedy has said.

Phil Scraton, professor emeritus at Queens University Belfast, who authored a damning new report into the coronial process in Ireland, said major failings contained in the initial investigations were “completely unacceptable”.