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One of the things that made the Stardust inquests different to other inquests was the pen portraits.
From the day it began sitting last April, the court heard over the course of several weeks from the families of each of the 48 people who died in the fire.
The family members would describe the person that they had lost; their likes, their dislikes, what they meant to their family, and what life had been like without them.
The decision to have pen portraits at the Stardust inquests came from the coroner, Dr Myra Cullinane, who had said that it would be a way to publicly commemorate those who had died, as well as to help the jury to picture the victims as they were at the time of the fire.
It would remind the jury that the victims “are at the heart of this inquest,” she said.
The results were alternately moving, heartbreaking and poignant.
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