Half of Stardust victims found between locked exit doors, inquest hears 

Former manager Eamon Butterly also told the jury that keeping exit doors locked on disco nights was 'unsafe' and that the 'consequences would be bad' if the doors were locked during an emergency. Picture: Colin Keegan/Collins

Half of the people who died following the Stardust fire were found in a location between a number of exit doors that were “locked when the fire broke out” and they “could not escape”, court heard today.

Des Fahy KC, representing some of the families of victims, put this to former Stardust manager Eamon Butterly before the fresh inquests for the 48 people who died, but Mr Butterly denied the assertion and said the doors were all unlocked.