LONDON - Four British police officers who suffered severe mental trauma after attending to victims of the 1989 Hillshorough football disaster won compensation yesterday. The amount has not yet been decided. Ninety six fans died at the Hillsborough soccer stadium during a match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest when a crowd control barrier collapsed.
The Court of Appeal said the officers were exposed, by the admitted negligence of South Yorkshire police, to "excessively horrific events such as were likely to cause psychiatric illness even in a police officer".