"Mr Moyle said he regretted that he was far from impressed with a considerable number of witnesses who gave evidence to the inquest, accusing them of being 'defensive', 'passing the parcel of blame onto others' and failing to accept facts that were 'blindingly obvious'.

He said if the prohibited area at the 26th Milestone had been properly marshalled and properly closed off spectators would not have been in that area and 'their lives would have been spared'.

He said he had no powers to ban race officials and marshals but he said he hoped they would 'do the decent and honourable thing' and not play any significant future role in the Manx Motorcycle Club or marshalling. Among those Mr Moyle was referring to were chief marshal Roger Hurst and former clerk of the course Neil Hanson."

The above is taken from the online edition of iomtoday.co.uk which is the online news paper for the Isle of Man.

I am a former resident and long time supporter if the TT and I have marshalled at the event. I can never remember this part of the course being resticted. Indeed on the wednesday of race week i passed through this section of the course pre race and could see spectators stood in the area in question and NO prohibitive signs. It looks like the marshals in this area are being unfairly blamed for not policing the area. I know this might be considered controversial but IF this was a resticted area and signed as such, the final responsibility of being there lies with the spectators themselves. Without police back up the marshalls authority is extremely limited, yes they can warn a spectator that a place is dangerous and ask them to move on, BUT how far can they go in actually removing them? IF they try a physical approach they lay themselves open to accusations of assault. It was an unfortunate racing accident and tragic for all involved, and sympathies for anyone that was affected by this accident, the riders and spectators families, the marshalls that were there and other spectators that witnessed this incident. BLAME? no blame can be fairly apportioned to anyone for this tragic accident. Hopefully some lessons will be learnt and changes made the main one to reverse the ridiculous decision to have the course "policed" by the marshalls and a handfull of local constabulary.