Those killed in 1973 'took no risk', so the deaths should not have been ruled misadventure, a group says.
A woman who lost her mother and best friend in the Summerland fire has called for the inquest verdicts of those who died to be revisited.
Huddersfield's Jackie Hallam is one of a group of survivors who believe that implies those who died were at fault. The Apologise for Summerland campaign group had previously called for the Isle of Man authorities to apologise for the failings that were identified in the inquiry into the blaze in 1974.when Chief Minister Alfred Cannan offered "an apology for the suffering caused by the wrongs of the past".
"Death by misadventure is a death where someone may have taken some activity with some voluntary risk involved," she said."We had a right to expect that building to be safe [and] it was not safe.Warning: The following contains descriptions that some may find distressingIt spread rapidly due to the flammable nature of the Galbestos cladding on part of the building.
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