People look at floral tributes in memory of the victims of the Hillsborough disaster at St Georges Hall in Liverpool, northern England April 27, 2016.REUTERS/Phil Noble
LONDON (Reuters) - The head of the British police force accused of covering up failings that led to the death of 96 fans at the Hillsborough football stadium in 1989 was suspended on Wednesday as MPs called for prosecutions.
The suspension of Chief Constable David Crompton of South Yorkshire Police came a day after an inquest jury concluded that the Liverpool fans who died in an overcrowded, fenced-in enclosure at the ground in Sheffield had been unlawfully killed, with police accepting catastrophic mistakes had been made.
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