‘Birmingham Four’ ask CCRC to investigate convictions for terror plot
22-04-2024 12:40 via theguardian.com

‘Birmingham Four’ ask CCRC to investigate convictions for terror plot

Four men were jailed for life in 2017 for planning terrorist attack in UK after elaborate undercover police operation“It’s 40 years since the Birmingham and Guildford pub bombings … and the question that gets asked [is]: ‘Could you imagine this [a police stitch-up] ever happening again?’ My reply is that it already has. This is the case in which it happened.”The case referred to by Gareth Peirce, who represented the Birmingham Six and Guildford Four, was that
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