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Belfast Man Arrested for 1974 Birmingham Bombings

By Oisin Sweeney • Published: 18 Nov 2020 • 13:54

Police have arrested a man in Belfast in connection to the 1974 Birmingham bombings which took 21 lives and wounded 200 people.

On Wednesday, November 18, the West Midlands Police announced that the suspect had been arrested. They said that ‘Officers from Counter Terrorism Policing West Midlands, working with colleagues from the Police Service of Northern Ireland, arrested a 65-year-old man at his home in Belfast today’.

The man is being questioned under caution by investigators and has been arrested under the Terrorism Act. On the 21st of November 1974, two bombs were detonated in pubs planted by the IRA in Birmingham city centre. An anonymous man made a telephone call to the Birmingham Post and Mail shortly before the lethal explosions.

Six Irish men, known as the Birmingham Six, served 16 years in prison for the attack until their convictions were overturned in 1991.

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Oisin Sweeney

Oisin is an Irish writer based in Seville, the sunny capital of Andalucia. After starting his working life as a bookseller, he moved into journalism and cut his teeth as a reporter at one of Ireland's biggest news websites. Since joining Euro Weekly News in November, he has enjoyed covering the latest stories from Seville, Spain and further afield - with special interests in crime, cybersecurity, and European politics. Anyone who can pronounce his name first try gets a free cerveza...

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