 In June 1985 , three months after the miners admitted defeat and ended their strike , Benn introduced the Miners ' Amnesty ( General Pardon ) Bill into the Commons , which would have extended an amnesty to all miners imprisoned during the strike . This would have included two men convicted of murder ( later reduced to manslaughter ) for the killing of David Wilkie , a taxi driver driving a non @-@ striking miner to work in South Wales during the strike . 
