Last night the IPCC said: "The officer was interviewed for the offence of manslaughter under caution".
"Four times Al said in evidence that he had lost control and that he regretted it and on that evidence alone the judge had the duty to offer this lesser offence, that of manslaughter, to the panel, and advocates for both sides, defence and prosecution, should have reminded him [the judge], but it was never mentioned by anyone," Southby-Tailyour said.
Manslaughter charges against company directors are notoriously difficult to bring, with no offence of corporate manslaughter existing, although the government has plans to bring in legislation making companies liable for deaths caused by "collective management failure" when parliamentary time allows.
The new offence of corporate manslaughter - announced in the Queen's speech setting out the government's legislative agenda - was part of Labour's 1997 election manifesto.
In the face of stiff opposition from some cabinet ministers he has had to postpone a bill creating a new offence of corporate manslaughter, which will now only be published in draft.
The CPS said it had considered offences of gross negligence manslaughter, misconduct in public office and attempting to pervert the course of justice in relation to the four officers and the civilian officer, but concluded there is insufficient evidence to bring any of these charges.
We then made 27 arrests on suspicion of manslaughter – the only extraditable offence applicable to events at Heysel – of which 60percentnt were from Liverpool and the remainder from places that ranged from Aberdeen to Ipswich.
He faces charges of manslaughter, inhuman treatment of persons - the ICC Act offence - and perverting the course of justice.
The MPA defines "knife crime" as follows: All offences of murder, attempted murder, threats to kill, manslaughter, infanticide, wounding or carrying out an act endangering life, GBH without intent, ABH and other injury, sexual assault, rape, robbery where a knife or sharp instrument (defined as any instrument that can pierce the skin) has been used.
Luciano was acquitted of manslaughter.
