Was The Bradford City Fire Arson?

[BodyButter]

At least that's what's being alleged by one of the survivors. Apparently, the owner of Bradford at the time had a history of convenient fires. Horrific stuff.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/apr/15/bradford-fire-stafford-heginbotham-martin-fletcher

 

[Villan Of The North]

It certainly seems to warrant a new investigation, especially considering that the initial investigation appears to have been rather superficial under the circumstances.

 

[Lord Ron Saunders]

was this investigated by the same police as the Hillsborough fiasco. ? :69:

 

[The Fear]

Goodness me... :21:

Bad enough as an accident, horrific in fact... but as arsen? Oh dear oh dear. Hope not in so many ways.

 

[BBJ]

It's a pretty appalling thought, isn't it?

 

[Pride of Lions]

I remember going there when Villa were in the old Third Division.

That stand was wooden... like the old one at Meadow Lane, Nottingham. If it was arson, it wouldn't take much.

It certainly needs looking at with modern techniques they have these days.

 

[kefkat]

Ofcourse it is possible this was genuine re the state of the ground, however it has made it look suspicious with all of the other fires.

 

[TuBBz]

Doesn't bare thinking about

Those poor supporters who went to watch a football match burning to death

Makes me shudder

 

[astonion]

I remember watching it live on TV and feeling devasted for the fans and their families. It also made me think because me and the wife had season tickets it the Trinity upper which was also a wooden stand. In them days we all smoked and we would drop em on the wooden floor and stamp them out. Any one of them fag ends could have set the stand alight. This, with the Bradford fire is, the the chairman at the time is now dead and unable to defend himself. I do think that sometimes for sake of the families it is best that things are left alone. Racking it all up again will only add to their grief, because no one will ever not the truth. All I can add is RIP to all those that perished and my sympathy to all their families.

 

[kefkat]

I lived just outside Bradford, in Bingley with the ex at the time of the Bradford fire disaster. We would have been at the match that today, only I was 4 weeks off having my eldest. We knew people caught up in it and who had family and friends that died that day.

It was a horrible horrible time. The guy who wrote this book reckons this because the owner owned alot of the mills in Saltaire which were death traps. Here's the article about it.

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Bradford Football Fire: My Dad Is No Arsonist

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The son of the former Bradford City chairman linked to a series of fires has told Sky News his entire family were in the main stand at Valley Parade during the blaze that killed 56 people in May 1985.

A new book by survivor Martin Fletcher has linked eight previous fires to businesses or premises owned by the club’s then chairman Stafford Heginbotham.

Mr Fletcher says this information was not considered by the police or public inquiry at the time, and is calling for a fresh investigation.

His book, Fifty-Six: The Story of the Bradford Fire, also claims Mr Heginbotham received millions of pounds in insurance as a result of the fires.

It also says that the club was in dire financial difficulties at the end of the 1985 season.


Cont: http://news.sky.com/story/1467013/bradford-football-fire-my-dad-is-no-arsonist