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Top journalist who helped win Birmingham Six’s freedom dies

BRITISH campaigning journalist, author and broadcaster Ludovic Kennedy has died aged 89, his agent said yesterday.

Tue, 20 Oct, 2009 - 01:00

He died of pneumonia at a nursing home in Salisbury, Wiltshire.

Kennedy made his reputation with decades of work trying to right miscarriages of justice.

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