Birmingham Six case

Title

Birmingham Six case

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1985

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Duration

00:00:41

Description

Report on new evidence that the Birmingham Six, sentenced to life for the 1974 IRA Birmingham pub bombings, may have been wrongfully convicted, and on local Conservative MP John Farr’s call for a retrial. Includes extracts from a Granada TV World in Action programme of an interview with forensic scientist Dr Brian Caddy and secret recording of one of the men, Patrick Joseph (Paddy Joe) Hill, in prison. Female reporter not identified.

Contributors

Granada Television; Brian Caddy; Paddy Joe Hill

Keywords

Terrorism; IRA; Birmingham; Television programmes; Imprisonment; Trials; Prisoners; Bombs; World in Action; Miscarriages of justice; Forensics; Birmingham Six; John Farr

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