sentences each for bombings which they did not commit. In the light of irrefutable evidence to prove Callaghan, Paddy Hill, Bill Power, Gerry Hunter and John Walker — the Birmingham Six — will be referred to the Court of Appeal. He also undertook CYCLLs wave Labour government to introduce for the first time the Prevention of Terrorism Act, which remains law to this day and which 1s regularly use lo narass the Irish The Six, nection organised Irish They were victims 2H-ISl leaflet "They vell VuLI were because viction Was 'confespolice evidence an expert forensic Both exposed.
scientist swab those con'Bill Power contract nitroglycerine.
office expert Collacl including common aint. Both Hill positive HesI Call ing cards.
available, as They • set about by other forms food and sleep ple, told me to sit on the edge of the seat and to keep my legs wide apart. He rammed a truncheon up into my testicles and started whipping me with the leather thong on the truncheon me on the head with it. He put it into my mouth and puned me wigger.
The four confessions extracted by such methods were totally i contradictory bow will ine Tacts or tue bombings and in relation to one dourer. ror exallthe plastic bags. reports Bombings i in had been encased 'confession' mbed The Bush ned mbed that Mclikenny said he The Town with Hill.
with Hence Face Iser been The evidence would been Icaving custody.
they were again, by In 14 warders were an In private rie the In 1977, ings, Appeal is an real itis tha the of that the involuntary were improperty COI victions were erroneous.
That would mean that the home secretary would have either to recommend that they be pardoned he would have to remit the case to the Court of Appeal.
"This is such an appalling vista that every sensible person in the land would say: "It cannot be right maudese actions should should be struck out. hey further."
plicitly because they only now uves men their families have that the case Birm. ingham reterred peal.
TV with the of of an case of ustice examples the Irish, black comAnother notorious case is of the FIVE army bomb in Paul Hill, ArmConlon Guildford the Woolwich. They too were convicted solely basis uncorroborated 'confessions' which they later retracted.
The Bombings at Guildford Four to appeal dull was charged with handling offences to the acquitted.
But the Maguire family, two sons brother, plosives. was claimed that the on the ber 1975 plosives.
the them Birmingham Six, the Guildford Magwires among biggest The Birmreopened the Guildford The La retrial, They walli evidence posed.
has such
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that, and growing public pressure, home secretary Douglas Hurd was recently forced to announce to parliament that the cases of Dick Mellkenny, Hugh
that allegations that the confessions which clinched the verdict were extracted under torture will also be
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bombing, Guildford