The Birmingham Six
On November 21, 1974 an intense bombing occurred in Birmingham in the United Kingdom. The explosion came from two Irish Republican Army bombs, and it killed 21 people and injured 182 people. Six men, now known as the Birmingham Six, were charged and convicted of murder and conspiracy to bombing.
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While the six men were in trial, they claimed how the police beat confessions out of them. The prosecutors of the trial provided evidence that proved the six men guilty, thus resulting in the six men being sent to jail. A decade later in 1985, scientists discovered that the evidence that sent the men to jail was actually not reliable or true. It took until 1991 for the six men to be set free from jail.
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