Birmingham pub bombings
The Birmingham pub bombings were carried out on 21 November 1974, killing 21 people and injuring 182 others. Six Irishmen were arrested within hours of the blasts, and in 1975 sentenced to life imprisonment for the bombings. Their convictions were declared unsafe and unsatisfactory, and quashed by the Court of Appeal in 1991. In 2017, one of the alleged perpetrators,...
