'No fair or reasonable basis' for forcing police chief out over Hillsborough

There was no "fair or reasonable basis" for taking the draconian step of forcing South Yorkshire chief constable David Crompton out of office, the High Court in England has heard.

Mr Crompton has challenged a decision taken by Dr Alan Billings, the region's police and crime commissioner (PCC), in the wake of April 2016 inquest findings into the deaths resulting from the Hillsborough stadium disaster 27 years before.