Paul May obituary
Tireless campaigner against miscarriages of justice who helped to secure the release of the Birmingham SixIn 1985 Paul May, who has died aged 74 of a pulmonary embolism, became the chair of the Birmingham Six campaign. Six years later, the convictions of Billy Power, Paddy Hill, Johnnie Walker, Richard McIlkenny, Gerry Hunter and Hughie Callaghan for the Birmingham pub bombings in 1974 were quashed by the court of appeal, but only after they had spent 17 years in prison.As the…
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