Two senior West Midlands Police officers should have faced gross misconduct proceedings over their conduct following the Hillsborough disaster, a report has said.

Mervyn Jones, who was assistant chief constable of West Midlands Police at the time, and then-detective chief superintendent Michael Foster, led the now discredited investigation into the disaster which led to the deaths of 97 football fans.

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A new report, by the Independent Office for Police Conduct, revealed that they were referred to the Crown Prosecution Service for their failings, but the threshold for prosecution was not found to have been m

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