Editing Heysel Stadium disaster (section)

==Litigation==
British police undertook a thorough investigation to bring the perpetrators to justice. Some seventeen minutes of film and many still photographs were examined. ''[[This Week (ITV TV series)|TV Eye]]'' produced an hour-long programme featuring the footage while British newspapers published the photographs.

A total of 34 people were arrested and questioned with 26 Liverpool fans being charged with [[manslaughter]]—the only [[Extradition|extraditable]] offence applicable to events at Heysel. An extradition hearing in London in February–March 1987 ruled all 26 were to be extradited to stand trial in Belgium for the death of Juventus fan Mario Ronchi. In September 1987 they were extradited and formally charged with manslaughter applying to all 39 deaths and further charges of assault. Initially, all were held at a Belgian prison, but, over the subsequent months, judges permitted their release as the start of the trial was further delayed.

The trial eventually began in October 1988, with three Belgians also standing trial for their role in the disaster: Albert Roosens, the head of the Belgian Football Association, for allowing tickets for the Liverpool section of the stadium to be sold to Juventus fans; and two police chiefs—Michel Kensier and Johan Mahieu—who were in charge of policing at the stadium that night.<ref name="standaard.be"/> Two of the 26 Liverpool fans were in custody in Britain at the time and stood trial later. In April 1989, fourteen fans were convicted and given three-year sentences, half of which were suspended for five years, allowing them to return to the UK.<ref name="witnesses">{{cite news|last=Jackson|first=Jamie|date=3 April 2005|title=The witnesses|work=The Observer|location=London|url=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0,,1448082,00.html|url-status=live|access-date=27 May 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061001232814/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0,,1448082,00.html|archive-date=1 October 2006}}</ref> One man who was acquitted was [[Ronnie Jepson]], who would go on to make 414 appearances over a thirteen-year career in the [[English Football League]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=Jeff|title=Port Vale Promotion Chronicle 1988–1989: Back to Where We Once Belonged!|publisher=Witan Books|year=1989|isbn=0-9508981-3-9|page=17}}</ref>