It was one of the worst atrocities of the Troubles, with 21 people being killed after explosives detonated inside two busy pubs. Now, a coroner has been told that an IRA informant may have tipped off police before the Birmingham bombings took place. The claim was made by a representative of the victims’ families, who want the inquest to be reopened more than 40 years after it was adjourned.
Victims of circumstances
The Birmingham Six were a group of six Irish men who were wrongly convicted of carrying out pub bombings in Birmingham, England in 1974. The key points of this case include:
The bombings took place on November 21, 1974, killing 21 people and injuring more than 160 others.
The six men, Hugh Callaghan, Patrick Hill, Gerard Hunter, Richard McIlkenny, William Power, and John Walker, were arrested in November 1974 and charged with the bombings.
Despite having no physical evidence linking them to the bombings, the six men were convicted and sentenced to life in prison in 1975.
The evidence used against them was based on confessions obtained through coercion and brutality by the police during interrogation.
The case gained widespread attention and the convictions were overturned in 1991 after new evidence emerged and a lengthy appeals process.
The case is widely regarded as one of the most notorious miscarriages of justice in British legal history and led to reforms in the criminal justice system.
The Birmingham Six case highlighted the issue of police misconduct and brutality, as well as the need for greater protection for suspects during police questioning.
2 Birmingham Pub Bombing (1974): Julie Hambleton and Paddy Hill standing together for justice
3 The Wrongful Imprisonment Of The Birmingham Six | Good Morning Britain
28 jun. 2016
4 Birmingham pub bombings: IRA suspect Hayes issues apology – BBC News
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10 jul. 2017
A self-confessed IRA bomb maker who has said he was part of the group responsible for the Birmingham pub bombings has issued an apology.
Twenty-one people were killed on 21 November 1974 when bombs exploded in two city centre pubs.
Six innocent men were wrongfully convicted. No-one has ever been brought to justice for one of the worst single losses of life in the Troubles.
Michael Christopher Hayes said he was sorry innocent people were killed.
The 69-year-old, who now lives in south Dublin, refused to say who planted the bombs in the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town, but said he was speaking out to give “the point of view of a participant”
Why didn’t they just get the peaky blinders after us lol. Garrison went boom boom 
“Real Volunteers”…. Never Talk
🇮🇪 Good Job, should have left the third one 
The I.R.A Southern command carried out the bombings. Watch “the year London blew up” & ye can see an unknown Chris O’ Dowd play the role of an oglach (volunteer) Harry Duggan.
7 The Birmingham Six: Spotlight 1991
8 The Birmingham Six Release, Live Broadcast. R.T.E. 1991
9 Birmingham pub bombings: inquests re-opened?
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10 The Pogues – Birmingham Six – performed by Greenland Whalefishers with Lyrics – Tribute and Respect
12 Birmingham pub bombings: Paddy Hill, one of the Birmingham Six, speaks
14 What the Papers Say on Birmingham Six release and Sunday Times Iraq War hubris
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13 mrt. 2016
15 Guildford Four inquiry papers show reconviction attempts – Emma Vardy
27 okt. 2016
17 Gerry Conlon and Paddy Hill speaking at the University of Limerick, School of Law
18 Birmingham Pub Bombings Cover Up 2016-06-01
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19 The Year London Blew Up – 1974 (Channel 4 2005)
19 feb. 2017
Told through documentary, drama and first-hand accounts, this revealing film is a unique account of the most ruthless IRA bombing campaign ever to hit mainland Britain.
Producer Mark Hayhurst
Writer Mark Hayhurst
Starring Michael Colgan, Chris O’Dowd
Production Company Blast! Films
Broadcaster Channel4
Fifty explosions rocked the capital at a rate of one per week, leaving 35 people dead and scores more maimed for life. They assassinated the TV personality Ross McWhirter after he announced a £50,000 bounty for their capture. They bombed the flat of former Prime Minister Ted Heath. They bombed Selfridge’s and Harrods. They killed innocent bystanders like Professor Gordon Hamilton-Fairley, the country’s leading cancer specialist. They even set off bombs in pillar boxes, patenting the ‘come-on’ booby trap to target bomb disposal officers. They were also responsible for the pub bombings for which the Guildford Four were wrongly and notoriously convicted.
England had never seen anything like it. The Prevention of Terrorism Act was rushed through Parliament and properties were sand-bagged as if it was wartime. The gang was operating on the principle that one bomb in London was worth ten in Belfast , and they brought ‘The Troubles’ home with extraordinary ferocity. Throughout they lived quietly in safe houses in London , undetected by a massive police operation and the intelligence services, until they lost their discipline and started driving through Mayfair crazily firing their sub-machine guns like Chicago gangsters.
Finally, the police were waiting. In Operation Combo they had flooded the West End with 3,000 men. After a breakneck car chase and gun fight, the gang were cornered in Balcombe Street . The ensuing siege saw an elderly couple – the Matthews – held hostage at gunpoint for five terrifying days in their Marylebone flat while TV cameras zoomed in on the scene around the clock.
20 ITV documentary The Birmingham Six Their Own Story tx 18 03 1991
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This film is about the Birmingham Six. On 14 March 1991, Paddy Hill, Hugh Callaghan, Richard McIlkenny, Gerry Hunter, Billy Power and Johnny Walker with Chris Mullin MP stood outside the Old Bailey free after 16 years, having had their convictions overturned for the murder of 21 people in two pubs in Birmingham. That most notorious miscarriage of justice came hard on the heels of other judicial scan- dals and set in motion a series of events. Such was the level of public and political concern that a Royal Commission was established and, ultimately, the collapse of public confidence led to the creation of the Criminal Cases Review Commission 13 years ago as the independent body to investigate miscarriages.
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Why are crooked cops NEVER prosecuted?
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Wrongful Imprisonment – ITV documentary on The Birmingham Six. Could this film be made today?
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Comparisons this case to modern day Muslim ‘fit ups’.
On 21 November, 1974, the Mulberry Bush pub at the foot of the city’s Rotunda tower and the nearby Tavern in the Town, were both destroyed within minutes of each other.
Six men imprisoned for the attacks had their convictions overturned by the Court of Appeal, after 16 years in jail, in March 1991.
The Birmingham Six – Hugh Callaghan, Patrick Hill, Gerard Hunter, Richard McIlkenny, William Power and John Walker – were sentenced to life imprisonment in 1975.
Human-rights lawyer Gareth Peirce who helped free the Birmingham Six and Guildford Four is now leading the fight for justice for the family of Jean Charles de Menezes. Here she is interviewed:
I.R.A. suspects the Guildford Four and Birmingham Six spent years in jail before you secured their release. Do their cases offer lessons for today? “I think these cases were an object lesson in how not to do things. It was a very belated dawning that unless an entire national community and the reasons for the conflict were understood, and a political solution devised, there could never be an end to the armed struggle. Now that message has been ignored — there is a completely baffling and frightening failure to understand what motivates political Islam.”
So you see parallels with the current situation? “Speaking to one of the Guildford Four recently, his reaction is: “Those poor guys, those Muslims — that’s exactly what happened to us. Has nobody learned?””
The Guildford Four’s story was the subject of a film, In the Name of the Father.
In August 1975 they were sentenced to life in prison on the basis of the false confessions. The men were denied the right to appeal and forced to wait until 1987 when their case was referred to the Court of Appeal, after new evidence emerged, before being rejected.
Public protests kept the case in the spotlight until August 1990 when forensic investigations showed their confessions had been tampered with.
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22 Man arrested over 1974 Birmingham Pub Bombings | ITV News
23 Birmingham pub bombings inquest reopened – BBC Newsnight
2 jun. 2016
27 Who Bombed Birmingham? (Part 4)
28 feb. 2010
Director Mike Beckham draws on the facts in the case of two 1974 bomb attacks in Birmingham that left twenty-one dead, and six innocent men wrongly convicted. In this film, Beckham follows the efforts of World in Action researchers Ian MacBride and Chris Mullin in proving that the “Birmingham Six” only admitted to the bombing under extreme duress, and that the five IRA members were in fact responsible for the deadly attacks.
35 Why won’t the police name the Birmingham pub bombing suspects? | Mike Graham
36 Birmingham Pub Bombings: ITV Central special programme | ITV News
37 The Six Irishmen Falsely Jailed For 16 Years Over IRA Bomb | British Gangsters | Absolute Crime
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41 The Birmingham Bombings | An Explosion of Guilt | World in Action Documentary 1980
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42 Birmingham Pub Bombing : IRA Terrorist Speaks About What Happened
43 The Birmingham Six – World in Action 1985 – Troubles Documentary
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