Member of Birmingham Six ‘sings at his own funeral’

Member of Birmingham Six ‘sings at his own funeral’

The hearse carrying the coffin of Hugh Callaghan arrives for his funeral (Belinda Jiao/PA)

Hugh Callaghan, one of the six men wrongly jailed for the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings, has sung at his own funeral, a priest has said.

Mr Callaghan, alongside Paddy Hill, Gerry Hunter, John Walker, Richard McIlkenny and Billy Power, was wrongly convicted of murdering 21 people when two explosions ripped apart the Tavern in the Town and Mulberry Bush pubs in Birmingham in 1974.

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