Inquests hear how PC tried to resuscitate schoolboy

A police officer has told the Hillsborough inquests that he thought he felt a pulse in a schoolboy victim after trying to resuscitate him.

Former PC Stephen Taylor said Philip Hammond looked unconscious when he found him laid on his back in a tunnel without anyone assisting him.

The witness said he felt a pulse in his neck after taking the 14 year old to an ambulance and carrying out chest compressions.

Mr Taylor said it was difficult to say how confident he was at the time about it, "but I felt that I had felt a pulse."

Retired PC Andrew Shiel wrote in his pocket notebook in 1989 about a pulse being found but said he did not see Mr Taylor feel for a pulse and couldn't say when he had heard about it.

The inquests heard Philip was taken to the Northern General Hospital but was confirmed dead at about 3.50pm.