On Wednesday 5th March the APPG on miscarriages of justice hosted an event in parliament event exploring the legacy of a series of landmark wrongful convictions – the Birmingham Six, Guildford Four and Maguire Seven.
We were joined by panellists including Patrick Maguire who was 13 years old when he was arrested as one of the ‘Maguire Seven’, the journalist Chris Mullin whose work exposed the Birmingham Six, the lawyers Alastair Logan OBE, Michael Mansfield KC and Gareth Peirce and filmmaker Ros Franey. The event will be chaired by broadcaster Roger Hearing.
This event was held in memory of Paddy Joe Hill of the Birmingham Six who sadly died in December. Paddy spent 16 years in prison wrongly jailed following the Birmingham pub bombings and devoted the rest of his life to tirelessly campaigning on the part of wrongfully convicted prisoners.
