{"id":17858,"date":"2020-11-18T07:54:01","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T12:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=17858"},"modified":"2020-11-18T08:37:05","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T13:37:05","slug":"birmingham-pub-bombings-man-arrested-in-belfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2020\/11\/18\/birmingham-pub-bombings-man-arrested-in-belfast\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham pub bombings: Man arrested in Belfast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i81\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p><b class=\"css-14iz86j-BoldText e5tfeyi0\">A man has been arrested in connection with the deaths of 21 people in the 1974 pub bombings in Birmingham.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i81\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>The blasts at the Mulberry Bush and Tavern in the Town pubs on the night of 21 November also injured 220 people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i81\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>Officers from Counter Terrorism Policing West Midlands, working with the Police Service of Northern Ireland, arrested the 65-year-old at his home in Belfast.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i81\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>He was detained under the Terrorism Act and his home is being searched.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i81\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>The 65-year-old will be interviewed under caution at a police station in Northern Ireland, police said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i81\" data-component=\"unordered-list-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<div class=\"css-1pzprxn-BulletListContainer e5tfeyi3\">\n<ul role=\"list\">\n<li><a class=\"css-yidnqd-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-35534745\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Birmingham pub bombings: What we know<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"css-yidnqd-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-birmingham-47375087\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Who were Birmingham pub bombings victims?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"css-yidnqd-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/uk-england-birmingham-54933809\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Latest news from the West Midlands<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i81\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>Saturday will mark the 46th anniversary of the bombings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i81\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p><a class=\"css-yidnqd-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-47829118\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fresh inquests<\/a>\u00a0last year ruled the victims were unlawfully killed, but did not establish who was responsible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i81\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>Those hearings came about after years of campaigning by families for a full account into what happened that night.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i81\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>Last month, Home Secretary Priti Patel\u00a0<a class=\"css-yidnqd-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-birmingham-54573551\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced she would be considering the case for a public inquiry into the bombings.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i81\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>Six men &#8211; Hugh Callaghan, Paddy Hill, Gerard Hunter, Richard McIlkenny, William Power and John Walker &#8211; were wrongly jailed for life in 1975 for the bombings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i81\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>The group, who became known as the Birmingham Six, had their convictions quashed in the appeal court and they were released in 1991.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i81\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>Julie Hambleton, whose 18-year-old sister Maxine died in the bombings, called the arrest &#8220;the most monumental event&#8221; in the criminal investigation since the quashing of those convictions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i81\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>She said she broke down in tears when she was told by a senior West Midlands Police officer of the arrest.<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i81\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>&#8220;I couldn&#8217;t speak, I was just inconsolable and was just looking at the picture of Maxine,&#8221; 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It&#8217;s overwhelming news. It&#8217;s tangible progress.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-birmingham-54989368\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">A man has been arrested in connection with the deaths of 21 people in the 1974 pub bombings in Birmingham. 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