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The Birmingham Six were six Irishmen: Hugh Callaghan, Patrick Joseph Hill, Gerard Hunter, Richard McIlkenny, William Power and John Walker, who, in 1975, were each sentenced to life imprisonment following their false convictions for the Birmingham pub bombings. Their convictions were declared unsafe and unsatisfactory and quashed by the Court of Appeal on 14 March 1991. The six men were later awarded compensation ranging from £840,000 to £1.2 million.

Birmingham pub bombings[edit]

The Birmingham pub bombings took place on 21 November 1974 and were attributed to the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA).[1]Improvised explosive devices were placed in two central Birmingham pubs: the Mulberry Bush at the foot of the Rotunda, and the Tavern in the Town – a basement pub in New Street. The resulting explosions, at 20:25 and 20:27, collectively were the most deadly attacks in the UK since World War II (until surpassed by the Denmark Place fire in 1980); 21 people were killed (ten at the Mulberry Bush and eleven at the Tavern in the Town) and 182 people were injured. A third device, outside a bank in Hagley Road, failed to detonate.[citation needed]

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Arrests and questioning[edit]

Six men were arrested; five were Belfast-born and John Walker was born in Derry. All six had lived in Birmingham since the 1960s. All the men except for Callaghan had left the city early on the evening of 21 November from New Street Station, shortly before the explosions. They were travelling to Belfast to attend the funeral of James McDade, an IRA member whom they all knew. McDade had accidentally killed himself on 14 November when his bomb detonated prematurely while he was planting it at a telephone exchange in Coventry.

When they reached Heysham, Lancashire, they and others were subject to a Special Branchstop and search. The men did not tell the police of the true purpose of their visit to Belfast, a fact that was later held against them. While the search was in progress the police were informed of the Birmingham bombings. The men agreed to be taken to Morecambe, Lancashire, police station for forensic tests.

On the morning of 22 November, after the forensic tests and questioning by the Morecambe police, the men were transferred to the custody of West Midlands Serious Crime Squad police unit. William Power alleged that he was assaulted by members of Birmingham Criminal Investigation Department.[2] Callaghan was taken into custody on the evening of 22 November.

While the men were in the custody of the West Midlands Police they were allegedly deprived of foodand sleep, they were interrogated sometimes for up to 12 hours without a break; threats were made against them and they suffered abuse: punches, dogs let loose within a foot of them, and a mock execution. Power confessed while in Morecambe while Callaghan, Walker and McIlkenny confessed at Queens Road in Aston, Birmingham; Hill and Hunter did not sign any documents.[citation needed]

Trial[edit]

On 12 May 1975 the six men were charged with murder and conspiracy to cause explosions.[citation needed] Three other men, James Kelly, Mick Murray and Michael Sheehan, were charged with conspiracy and Kelly and Sheehan also faced charges of unlawful possession of explosives.[citation needed]

The trial began on 9 June 1975 at the Crown Court sitting at Lancaster Castle, before Mr Justice Bridge and a jury. After legal arguments the statements made in November were deemed admissible as evidence. The unreliability of these statements was later established. Thomas Watt provided circumstantial evidence about John Walker's association with Provisional IRA members.[3]

Forensic scientist Dr Frank Skuse used positive Griess test results to claim that Hill and Power had handled explosives. Callaghan, Hunter, McIlkenny and Walker all had tested negative. GCMS tests at a later date were negative for Power and contradicted the initial results for Hill.[4] Skuse's claim that he was 99% certain that Power and Hill had explosives traces on their hands was opposed by defence expert Dr Hugh Kenneth Black of the Royal Institute of Chemistry, the former HM Chief Inspector of Explosives, Home Office. Skuse's evidence was clearly preferred by Bridge.[5] The jury found the six men guilty of murder. On 15 August 1975, they were each sentenced to 21 life sentences.

Criminal charges against prison officers and civil actions against police[edit]

On 28 November 1974, the men appeared in court for the second time after they had been remanded into custody at HM Prison Winson Green. All showed bruising and other signs of ill-treatment.[6] Fourteen prison officers were charged with assault in June 1975, but were all acquitted at a trial presided over by Mr. Justice Swanwick.[7] The Six brought a civil claim for damages against the West Midlands Police in 1977, which was struck out on 17 January 1980 by the Court of Appeal (Civil Division), constituted by the Master of the Rolls, Lord Denning, Goff LJ and Sir George Baker,[8] under the principle of estoppel.[9]

During proceedings, prison officers and police were blamed for the beatings.[citation needed]

Appeals[edit]

In March 1976 their first application for leave to appeal was dismissed by the Court of Appeal, presided over by Lord WidgeryCJ.[10] Journalist Chris Mullin investigated the case for Granada TV's World in Action series. In 1985, the first of several World in Action programmes casting doubt on the men's convictions was broadcast. In 1986, Mullin's book, Error of Judgment: The Truth About the Birmingham Pub Bombings, set out a detailed case supporting the men's claims that they were innocent. It included his claim to have met some of those who were actually responsible for the bombings.

The Home Secretary, Douglas Hurd, referred the case back to the Court of Appeal. In January 1988, after a six-week hearing (at that time the longest criminal appeal hearing ever held), the convictions were ruled to be safe and satisfactory. The Court of Appeal, presided over by the Lord Chief Justice Lord Lane, dismissed the appeals. Over the next three years, newspaper articles, television documentaries and books brought forward new evidence to question the safety of the convictions, while campaign groups calling for the men's release were formed in Britain, Ireland, Europe and the US.[citation needed]

Their second full appeal, in 1991, was allowed. Hunter was represented by Lord GiffordQC, the others by Michael Mansfield QC. New evidence of police fabrication and suppression of evidence, the successful attacks on both the confessions and the 1975 forensic evidence caused the Crown to decide not to resist the appeals. The Court of Appeal, constituted by Lord Justices Lloyd, Mustill and Farquharson, stated that 'in the light of the fresh scientific evidence, which at least throws grave doubt on Dr. Skuse's evidence, if it does not destroy it altogether, these convictions are both unsafe and unsatisfactory.' [11] On 14 March 1991 the six walked free.[12]

In 2001, a decade after their release, the six men were awarded compensation ranging from £840,000 to £1.2 million.[13]

Richard McIlkenny, one of the six men wrongly convicted of the Birmingham pub bombings, died of cancer on 21 May 2006, aged 73. He had returned to Ireland shortly after he was freed from prison, and died in hospital with his family at his bedside.[14] McIlkenny was buried on 24 May in Celbridge, County Kildare. Four other members of the Birmingham Six were present at his wake and funeral.[15]

Of the five surviving members of the Birmingham Six, Patrick Hill currently resides in Ayrshire; Gerard Hunter in Portugal; John Walker in Donegal; and both Hugh Callaghan and William Power in London.[16]

Consequences[edit]

The success of the appeals and other miscarriages of justice caused the Home Secretary to set up a Royal Commission on Criminal Justice in 1991. The commission reported in 1993 and led to the Criminal Appeal Act 1995 which established the Criminal Cases Review Commission in 1997. Superintendent George Reade and two other police officers were charged with perjury and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice but were never prosecuted. During the inquest into the bombings in 2016, Hill stated that he knew the identities of three of the bombers who were still 'free men' in Ireland.[17][incorrect reference]

Granada Television productions[edit]

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On 28 March 1990, ITV broadcast the Granada Televisiondocudrama, Who Bombed Birmingham?, which re-enacted the bombings and subsequent key events in Chris Mullin's campaign. Written by Rob Ritchie and directed by Mike Beckham, it starred John Hurt as Mullin, Martin Shaw as World in Action producer Ian McBride, Ciarán Hinds as Richard McIlkenny, one of the Six, and Patrick Malahide as Michael Mansfield (QC).[18][19] It was repackaged for export as The Investigation – Inside a Terrorist Bombing, and first shown on American television on 22 April 1990.[20][21] Granada's BAFTA-nominated follow-up documentary after the release of the six men, World in Action Special: The Birmingham Six – Their Own Story, was telecast on 18 March 1991.[22] It was released on DVD in 2007 in Network's first volume of World in Action productions.[23]

In 1994, Frank Skuse brought libel proceedings against Granada, contending that World in Action had falsely portrayed him as negligent. His counsel asserted in the High Court that scientific tests performed in 1992, after the Crown's substantive concession of the accused men's third appeal, showed that traces of nitroglycerine were detected on swabs taken after the bombings from the hands of Hunter and Hill, and on rail tickets handled by McIlkenny and Power. Granada maintained there were never any traces of explosives on the six men.[24] Skuse abandoned the action later that year.[25]

Freedom of speech[edit]

In December 1987, the Court of Appeal granted an injunction which prevented Channel 4 from re-enacting portions of a hearing in the litigation, as it was 'likely to undermine public confidence in the administration of justice' if shown during the appeal, in violation of the Contempt of Court Act 1981.[26] In their book The Three Pillars of Liberty (1996) Keir Starmer, Francesca Klug, and Stuart Weir said the decision had had a 'chilling effect' on other news and current affairs programmes.[27]

In 1993 and 1994, the Birmingham Six received an undisclosed amount from both The Sunday Telegraph and The Sun in an action for libel for the newspapers' reporting of police statements.[28]The New York Times reported in 1997 that the Six had brought libel actions against publications for reporting slurs against them, and that a libel law that usually favors plaintiffs was sending a chill through the British press.[29] The Conservative MP David Evans was sued by them in March 1997 for saying that they were guilty of killing hundreds of people before they were caught. Evans apologised 16 months later. He paid both damages and costs and promised he would never repeat the allegation again.[30]

See also[edit]

  • Guildford Four and Maguire Seven, two sets of people falsely convicted of the Guildford pub bombings which were carried out by the Provisional IRA's Balcombe Street Gang in 1974.
  • 'Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six', a song by The Pogues in support of the Birmingham Six and Guildford Four

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References[edit]

  1. ^Although the IRA denied that it was involved in the bombings two days after the event, and the IRA has never formally admitted responsibility for the Birmingham bomb, in 1985 a former IRA chief of staff, Joe Cahill, acknowledged the IRA's role, and 30 years after the bombings Gerry Adams, president of Sinn Féin, expressed his regrets about the bombings and the huge loss of life and injuries they inflicted (Chrisafis, Angelique. IRA fails to say sorry for Birmingham pub bombs, The Guardian 22 November 2004, Staff. Adams expresses regret for Birmingham pub bombingsIrish Examiner 22 November 2004). Guardian newspaper: Birmingham Six man signs petition, 22 April 2012 - Patrick Hill, one of the Six, said in April 2012 that the Six had learned the names of the real bombers and claimed it was common knowledge among the upper echelons of both the IRA and the British government.
  2. ^CAIN: Events: Birmingham Six: Fr. Denis Faul and Fr. Raymond Murray. (n.d; 1975?) The Birmingham Framework: Six innocent men framed for the Birmingham Bombings, cain.ulst.ac.uk; accessed 6 April 2017.
  3. ^p229 Chris MullinError of Judgement
  4. ^Schurr, Beverley (1993). 'Expert Witnesses And The Duties Of Disclosure & Impartiality: The Lessons Of The IRA Cases In England'(PDF). NetK.net.au. NSW Legal Aid Commission. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  5. ^R v McIlkenney (2019) 93 Cr.App.R. 287
  6. ^CAIN: Events: Birmingham Six: Fr. Denis Faul and Fr. Raymond Murray. (1976) The Birmingham Framework: Six innocent men framed for the Birmingham Bombings
  7. ^Richards, Andy; Cannon, Matt (19 November 2014). 'Birmingham pub bombings: The 28 numbers that add up to a cover-up, say campaigners'. The Birmingham Post. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
  8. ^McIlkenny -v- Chief Constable of the West Midlands [1980] QB 283
  9. ^Judgments – Polanski (Appellant) v. Conde Nast Publications Limited (Respondents) UK Parliament publications Paragraph 86
  10. ^Miscarriages of Justice; Bob Woffinden (1987)
  11. ^R v McIlkenney (1991) 93 Cr.App.R. 287–318.
  12. ^Peirce, Gareth (12 March 2011). 'The Birmingham Six: Have we learned from our disgraceful past?'. The Guardian. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
  13. ^'40th anniversary of pub bombings that led to one of the worst miscarriages of British justice', The Independent, 21 November 2014.
  14. ^The Guardian 22 May 2006
  15. ^IrishTimes.com, 25 May 2006.
  16. ^Daily Record, 9 March 2011.
  17. ^Staunton, Denis (2 June 2016). 'Birmingham bombings: Coroner concerned tip-offs ignored'. The Irish Times. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
  18. ^BFI Screenonline – World in Action
  19. ^Simon Coward, Richard Down & Christopher Perry The Kaleidoscope British Independent Television Drama Research Guide 1955–2010, Kaleidoscope Publishing, 2nd edition, 2010, p.3304, ISBN978-1-900203-33-3
  20. ^Who Bombed Birmingham? – British Film Institute
  21. ^The Investigation: Inside a Terrorist Bombing – IMDB
  22. ^World in Action Special: The Birmingham Six – Their Own Story British Film Institute
  23. ^World in Action Volume 1, networkdvd.net; accessed 6 April 2017.
  24. ^Heather Mills 'Scientist in Birmingham Six case sues TV firm for libel', The Independent, 5 October 1994.
  25. ^'Pub blasts scientist drops libel action', The Independent, 18 October 1994.
  26. ^Helsinki Watch; Fund for Free Expression (1991). Restricted Subjects: Freedom of Expression in the United Kingdom. p. 53.
  27. ^Klug, Francesca (1996). Starmer, Keir; Weir, Stuart (eds.). The Three Pillars of Liberty: Political Rights and Freedoms in the United Kingdom. The Democratic Audit of the United Kingdom. Routledge. pp. 158–159. ISBN978-041509642-3.
  28. ^Quinn, Frances (2013). 'Chapter 15: Defamation'. Law for Journalists(PDF) (Fourth ed.). Harlow, England: Pearson Education Ltd. p. 220. ISBN978-1-4479-2306-0. Archived(PDF) from the original on 14 July 2015.
  29. ^Lyall, Sarah (7 July 1997). 'A libel law that usually favours plaintiffs sends a chill through the British press'. The New York Times. Retrieved 1 May 2010.
  30. ^https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Former+MP+says+sorry+to+Six+over+'guilty'+remark.-a060772646

Further reading[edit]

  • Transcript of Appeal Hearing: McIlkenny & Ors, R. v, 1991, EWCA Crim 2 (27 March 1991)
  • Error of Judgment: The Truth About the Birmingham Bombings; Chris Mullin
  • The Birmingham Six and Other Cases; Louis Blom-Cooper; ISBN0-7156-2813-5.
  • Forever Lost, Forever Gone; Paddy Joe Hill

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