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Fresh offer for Summerland Fire Inquest submitted

Aslea Tracey

BBC News, Isle of Man

Noel Howarth looks a lot over the bay as a large complex that is on fire and comes out of the building of black smoke. The cars and clothing correspond to the style of the 1970s.Noel Howarth

Vacationers and residents died after the fire had devoured the complex in 1973

A formal application for a new investigation of the death of 50 people in the Summerland Fire Catastrophe was submitted to the Isle of Man.

The judiciary for the Summerland Group, which consists of survivors and relatives of victims, has previously called for the original judgment regulations to cancel.

The PHOENIX Law, which is based in Belfast, said that the families represented the families, said that she wanted to reopen the case to ensure “a comprehensive investigation” with “modern legal and forensic standards”.

The government of the Isle of Man contacted the BBC for an answer.

Around 3,000 people were in the Summerland Entertainment Complex, which at that time was one of the largest leisure complexes in the interior in Europe when a fire broke out on the evening of August 2, 1973.

It was believed that three boys from smoking Liverpool were founded.

A public investigation subsequently showed that there were “no bad guys” and only people who made mistakes.

“Fresh evidence”

However, Phoenix Law presented his application and said, however, that there had been an “irregularity of procedures in the original investigation” that had not commented or addressed “essential problems” including the cause of the fire.

The company said that there are “essential new evidence that in the original investigation or the Commission, which question the central conclusions, not to negotiate”, which indicates that the forensic analysis of the time is now “unreliable”.

A spokesman also said that several experts had provided support for a new examination of the fire, “in the premise that significant developments were carried out on the examination of fires within forensic science”.

He said they had pointed out Stardust FireIn the 48 young people in 1981 in a fire in a night club in North Dublin, where “the cause of the fire was founded many years after the event”.

The company's Darragh Mackin, who represented many families in the Stardust fire last year, said that relatives of the people killed in Summerland had “concerns about the original investigation for years”.

It was “difficult to imagine a more convincing sentence of circumstances to fix a new investigation,” he added.