Hill urges Birmingham to back bombing probe

Paddy Hill, one of the Birmingham Six wrongly convicted for bombings that killed 21 people and injured a further 182 in 1974, is supporting a petition to reopen the case.

The Belfast-born human rights campaigner said the identity of the real bombers was common knowledge at the highest levels of both the IRA and the British government, and he asked the people of Birmingham to back the campaign.

“When I heard about the small number of people who had signed this petition so far, I was gutted,” said Mr Hill, who served 16 years of a life sentence before the conviction was quashed.