BBC NEWS ANNOUNCES THE DEATH OF PADDY HILL MEMBER OF THE BIRMINGHAM 6 AGED 80 - IRELAND — Transcript

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1. 0:00Patty Hill one of the six men wrongly
2. 0:02convicted of the 1974 Birmingham Pub
3. 0:05bombings has died aged 80 Bernie Allen
4. 0:09reports six people have been charged
5. 0:13these men will all appear tomorrow
6. 0:15morning at the Birmingham magistrates
7. 0:17court at 10:00 py Hill spent his life
8. 0:22fighting for justice police told us from
9. 0:25the start that they knew we hadn't done
10. 0:28it they told us they didn't didn't care
11. 0:30who done it they told us that their
12. 0:32orders were that they were to get
13. 0:34confessions and
14. 0:36convictions and not to use any means
15. 0:39that they had to to obtain them the
16. 0:42Birmingham six served 17 years in prison
17. 0:46before their convictions were quashed
18. 0:48after his release Mr Hill founded the
19. 0:51miscarriages of Justice organization
20. 0:54helping others who were imprisoned
21. 0:56despite being innocent of the crimes
22. 0:59they were accused us of every day coming
23. 1:02into the office and people phing us and
24. 1:05telling us a story getting their
25. 1:06paperwork looking through it he was
26. 1:09reliving not only their trauma his
27. 1:12trauma but he was living their trauma as
28. 1:14well those who knew Paddy Hill say he
29. 1:18will be remembered as the bravest of the
30. 1:21Brave and a friend to anyone who
31. 1:24suffered Injustice