Birmingham Six

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Police will re-open its investigation into the Birmingham pub bombings that killed 21 people nearly 40 years ago.

Detectives will open a cold-case probe into who carried out the suspected IRA attacks in November 1974, which also injured 182 people.

In 1991 six men, known as the Birmingham Six, were released from prison after spending 17 years behind bars when their convictions for the bombings were quashed by the Court of Appeal.

Blast: The Mulberry Bush pub in Birmingham was completely destroyed in the blast which killed 21 people

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