Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn visited the Hillsborough inquests in Warrington today.
He was accompanied by Liverpool -born Shadow Home Secretary Andy Burnham and Walton MP Steve Rotheram.
The Labour leader went into the hearing to sit in the seats reserved for observers and families of the 96 Liverpool fans killed in Britain’s worst sporting disaster.
He did not speak to press outside the coroner’s court.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn
Mr Corbyn took a front row seat next to Margaret Aspinall, who chairs the Hillsborough Family Support Group.
Also present in court today was Garston MP and Shadow Culture Secretary Maria Eagle.
Mr Corbyn attended the hearing in Warrington as the Coroner Sir John Goldring continues summing up the evidence in the case, the longest-running jury inquest in British legal history, which began in March 2014 and is now in its 277th day.
He was accompanied by shadow home secretary Andy Burnham and Walton MP Steve Rotheram.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, centre, arrives alongside Steve Rotheram MP, left, and the Shadow Home Secretary, Andy Burham, right, at the Hillsborough Inquests
They were expected to use the opportunity of a morning break in the proceedings to speak to families of some of the fans who died.
A spokeswoman said Mr Corbyn had come to the hearings “as an observer”.
Mr Burnham has been credited with helping the families to campaign for new inquests, quashing the verdicts of accidental death in the original inquests held in 1991.
He raised the families’ campaign for new inquests at Cabinet level with then prime minister Gordon Brown, leading to the setting up of the Hillsborough Independent Panel.
The inquests have been sitting for almost two years, with the jury hearing evidence into the deaths of the 96 fans crushed to death on the Leppings Lane terrace of the ground as the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest got under way in Sheffield on April 15 1989.
The jury is expected to retire to consider their verdicts on March 2.
Source: http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/