Six Men, Two Bombs, One Grave Injustice
· 34 min · S5 E23
Episode Six Men, Two Bombs, One Grave Injustice
March 14, 1991. The Birmingham Six have been in prison for 16 years. Each of these six Irishmen was found guilty of 21 counts of murder back in 1975 – held responsible for bombs detonated at two popular pubs in Birmingham, England. They were accused of being part of an IRA terror campaign, but have maintained their innocence since the moment they were arrested. It turns out... they were telling the truth.
Today, the Birmingham Six will be set free. How were they imprisoned for a crime they never committed? And why have the actual bombers never been brought to justice?
Special thanks to Ed Barlow, producer at the BBC and creator of the podcast series In Detail: The Pub Bombings.
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