In June 2017, Bettison, the former South Yorkshire Police officer, was one of six individuals charged with criminal offences relating to the Hillsborough disaster and its aftermath.
As a result of the events on April 15, 1989, at the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest, 96 supporters lost their lives.
Following the publication of the Hillsborough Independent Panel’s report in 2012, the original inquest verdicts of accidental death were quashed and new hearings ordered.
After the longest-running inquest in UK legal history, between 2014 and 2016, determinations of unlawful killing were returned by a jury of six women and three men in the case of each and every one of the 96 victims.