The Birmingham Six were six Irishmen : Hugh Callaghan , Patrick Joseph Hill , Gerard Hunter , Richard McIlkenny , William Power and John Walker , who , in 1975 , were each sentenced to life imprisonment following their false convictions for the Birmingham pub bombings . Their convictions were declared unsafe and unsatisfactory and quashed by the Court of Appeal on 14 March 1991 . The six men were later awarded compensation ranging from £ 840,000 to £ 1.2 million
Birmingham pub bombings
Birmingham pub bombings
Birmingham Six