Birmingham Six case

Title

Birmingham Six case

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

Oct 1985

Year of production

1985

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Duration

00:11:26

Description

Report on new evidence suggesting that the Birmingham Six (Hugh Callaghan, Patrick Joseph (Paddy Joe) Hill, Gerard Hunter, Richard McIlkenny, William (Billy) Power and John Walker), sentenced to life for the 1974 IRA Birmingham pub bombings, may have been wrongfully convicted. On claims the confessions were beaten out of the men, discrediting of forensics, and calls on UK Home Secretary Douglas Hurd for a retrial. Includes extracts from interviews for Granada TV World in Action programme with solicitor Brian Rose-Smith, who represented three of the men; forensic scientists David Baldock and Brian Caddy; secret recording of Hill in prison. Interviews with Power’s sister Patsy; two of the wives including Kate McIlkenny; solicitor Ivan Geffen, who represented Hunter and McIllkenny; Conservative MP Sir John Farr; human rights campaigner Father Denis Faul. With archive extracts including Assistant Chief Constable Maurice Buck confirming the arrests. Male reporter not identified.

Contributors

Granada Television; Patsy Power; David Baldock; Brian Caddy; Denis Faul; Ivan Geffen; Maurice Buck; Brian Rose-Smith; Kate McIlkenny; John Farr; Paddy Joe Hill

Keywords

Terrorism; Police; IRA; Birmingham; Policing practice; Television programmes; Imprisonment; Trials; Conviction; Prisoners; Bombs; World in Action; Miscarriages of justice; Douglas Hurd; Forensics; Hugh Callaghan; Patrick Joseph Hill; Gerard Hunter; Richard McIlkenny; John Walker; Birmingham Six; Billy Power

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