Birmingham pub bombing suspects can be named, says court

Firefighters survey the damage outside the Tavern in the Town pub in Birmingham after the IRA bomb blast in November 1974.A judge has overruled a coroner’s decision to ban the naming of an IRA unit alleged to have been responsible for killing 21 people in the 1974 Birmingham pub bomb atrocities.In July, the coroner, Sir Peter Thornton QC, ruled that the names of the alleged perpetrators would not be part of the framework of the new inquests.