LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Birmingham six appeal

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1991

Play audio

To listen to the audio files, please log in.

Duration

00:02:50

Description

Julian O’Neill reports for LBC Newstalk 97.3 on the second appeal case of the Birmingham Six as the prosecution case starts to look weak with evidence discredited. They were sentenced to life imprisonment in 1975 for the Birmingham Pub Bombings. With comment from Paddy (Patrick) McIlkenny, brother of one of the six, Richard McIlkenny; and Catholic Primate of Ireland, Dr Cahal Daly.

Contributors

Cahal Daly; Julian O’Neill; LBC Newstalk; Patrick McIlkenny

Keywords

Legal procedure; Corruption; Legal decisions; Trials; Policemen; Appeals; DPP; Miscarriages of justice; Hugh Callaghan; Gerard Hunter; Richard McIlkenny; John Walker; Birmingham Six; Courts of Appeal; Billy Power; George Reed(?); Paddy Joe Hill

The copyright of audio recordings in the LBC / IRN Digitisation Archive is owned by Global Radio UK Ltd.