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The coroner who conducted the heavily-criticised original Hillsborough inquests died last month, the Mirror can reveal. Dr Stefan Popper ruled that the 96 Liverpool fans who lost their lives in the disaster could not have been saved after 3. As a result, the damning evidence of failures in the emergency response were not heard - and he returned verdicts of accidental death.

Dr Popper was also condemned for ordering that blood alcohol levels be taken from all those who died - including children. He was the coroner for South Yorkshire West on the day of the FA Cup semi-final and visited the stadium as the death toll mounted. He was interviewed in by the Independent Police Complaints Commission as part of its probe into the disaster.

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Investigators questioned him over why he ordered checks on the blood alcohol levels of those who died. But speaking at her Nottingham home his wife Yvonne, 80, said he died from cancer last month aged Read more: Families of Hillsborough victims celebrate inquest 'vindication'. They had to have somebody to blame. There were mistakes made but in such a panicky period there would be mistakes made.

It said imposing the 3. Fresh evidence showed that of the 41 victims that survived beyond that time, half could have been saved. It makes me very angry.