Paddy Hill obituary

One of the Birmingham Six wrongly convicted for the 1974 pub bombings in the city who spent 17 years in jailPaddy Hill, who has died aged 80, was the angriest and most articulate of the Birmingham Six – the innocent men convicted in 1975 of the Birmingham pub bombings. The explosions in two city centre pubs in 1974 killed 21 people and injured many more, and took place at a time of frequent IRA terrorist attacks on mainland Britain.From the outset Hill protested his innocence, to anyone he