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Corbyn visits Hillsborough inquest with Burnham

LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn and shadow home secretary Andy Burnham paid a visit yesterday to the ongoing inquests into the 1989 Hillsborough disaster.

Mr Corbyn sat in the seats reserved for observers and families of the 96 Liverpool fans killed in Britain’s worst sporting disaster.

He attended the hearing in Warrington as coroner Sir John Goldring continues summing up the evidence in the case, which began in March 2014.

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