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Popplewell defends Bradford public enquiry
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Oliver Popplewell, the former judge who conducted the 1985 Bradford fire public inquiry, defended his investigation yesterday after it was revealed that local police had described the inquiry as a “seat of the pants affair.”
Popplewell, who has said police should look at eight other fires allegedly connected to the then club chairman to see if there was anything “sinister,” ruled in 1985 that the fire was an accident.
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