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Death of Steven Gerrard's cousin heard at Hillsborough inquest

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The Hillsborough inquest hears that Steven Gerrard's 10-year-old cousin Jon-Paul Gilhooley disappeared in the crowd before his body was found in the 1989 disaster.

Details of how Steven Gerrard's young cousin passed away in the Hillsborough disaster have been heard at an inquest.

Ten-year-old Jon-Paul Gilhooley was the youngest victim of the tragedy, which claimed the lives of 96 Liverpool supporters as a result of a crush at the Hillsborough stadium in 1989.

Two family friends told an inquest on Wednesday that the young boy got lost in the crowd shortly after the three of them entered Sheffield Wednesday's ground through exit gate C.

Fans continued to pile into the stand and Glen Flatley told an inquest that due to the "surge" of people the situation became "unbearable" and Jon-Paul disappeared.

"It was becoming really really unbearable, it just kept coming," The Mirror quotes Mr Flatley as saying. "The pressure - it was like concrete. It was like being pressed between two massive slabs of concrete and someone forcing it against you.

"Jon-Paul was somewhere in front of me but I couldn't see him because he was obviously much smaller and we were so packed in together at this time that it was impossible for me to even look down and see where he was. It had become so bad that I had accepted I was about to die and I knew that death was imminent."

The inquest, which was granted by the courts after the original 'accidental' verdict was quashed, is ongoing in Warrington.

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