This podcast investigates the factors leading to the arrest, conviction, and subsequent release of the Birmingham Six. In November 1974, two pubs were bombed in Birmingham by the IRA, resulting in the death of 21 people and the injury of 162 others. A third bomb failed to detonate. Six men were arrested and convicted of 21 counts of murder. These men infamously became known as the ‘Birmingham Six’. Their conviction was based on fabricated evidence, incorrect scientific evidence and forced confessions. The men were also subject to alleged police brutality throughout their detention. After multiple attempts, the six were finally successful in their appeal in 1991. The Court found their convictions to be ‘unsatisfactory and unsafe’. Their convictions were overturned after 16 years imprisonment, and the case subsequently became one of the most famous miscarriages of justice from the 20th Century.
