Overview

• Paddy Hill, one of the Birmingham Six, has died peacefully at home at the age of 80, according to the Miscarriages of Justice Organisation (MOJO).
• The Birmingham Six were wrongly convicted of the 1974 IRA pub bombings in Birmingham, which killed 21 people and injured many others.
• Hill and the other five men spent 17 years in prison before their convictions were overturned in 1991 due to a lack of evidence and allegations of police misconduct.
• After his release, Hill founded the Glasgow-based MOJO in 2001 to support others who had been wrongfully imprisoned.
• Only three members of the Birmingham Six—Gerry Hunter, John Walker, and Billy Power—are still alive, with two others having passed away in 2006 and 2023.