Marchioness' inquiry hopes
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Fifty-one people were killed when the Marchioness and the dredger Bowbelle collided at night on the Thames in August 1989. An inquest jury in April 1995 found that the victims had been killed unlawfully, but in July 1996 the Crown Prosecution Service closed the file on the tragedy.
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