Hillsborough Inquests: 'No oxygen' left for teenager

Kevin Tyrrell and Carl Rimmer were among the 96 Liverpool fans to die in the 1989 disaster

A policeman who tried to resuscitate a 15-year-old boy at Hillsborough said he twice called for oxygen only to be told none was available, a jury has heard.

The new Hillsborough Inquests also heard how Kevin Tyrrell "breathed on his own" during an attempt to save him.

The teenager was one of 96 Liverpool fans fatally injured in a terrace crush at his team's FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest on 15 April 1989.

The jury also heard about the final movements of Carl Rimmer, 21.

Kevin, from Runcorn, went to the match in Sheffield with two friends, Steven Cain and Brian Welch, who both survived.

The group all went into pen three, a fenced enclosure on the Leppings Lane terraces, but became separated after crowd "surges".

The jury heard parts of a statement from Sgt Eric Hall, in which he described carrying Kevin through neighbouring pen four and on to the pitch.

Mr Hall said he and another officer, PC Gerard McManus, spent "over 10 minutes" trying to resuscitate him there.

'Knew he was dead'

Mr Hall said: "During this time an ambulance pulled up behind the goal and I shouted for oxygen on two occasions but was told that there was none available and it had been used.

"A medical officer then came to me and placed an oxygen mask over the youth's face, but there was no response."

In his statement, Mr McManus said Kevin at one stage "vomited and breathed on his own, but then stopped breathing again".

Mr McManus told the court: "It was not a long period where we could have then sought further assistance for him.

"It was a short time and then that stopped and we had to continue with trying to resuscitate him again."

The court heard how eventually Mr McManus "felt [Kevin's] mouth go very stiff and I knew he was dead".

After examining him in the stadium's gymnasium - which was used as a temporary morgue - a doctor confirmed Kevin had died at about 16:00 BST - an hour after the match had kicked off.

Mr Tyrrell identified his son's body after driving to Sheffield that evening.

The inquests heard there was no evidence about how Mr Rimmer entered the stadium or what happened to him on the terraces.

Police officers at Operation Resolve, the ongoing inquiry into Hillsborough, identified him among a pile of casualties at the front of pen three at 15:19.

He was also carried to the gym where Dr Brian Timney confirmed his death at 15:52.

His brother, Kevin Rimmer, identified his body at 00:15 the following morning.

The inquests, sitting in Warrington, Cheshire, are due to resume on Tuesday.

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