Hugh Callaghan

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	16
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Year Convicted:	1975
Year Cleared:	1991
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	United Kingdom
County or Region of Crime:	England
City of Crime:	Birmingham
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	Hugh Callaghan was one of the Birmingham Six. Convicted in August 1975 of bombing two Birmingham city centre pubs in which 21 people died. Their convictions were reversed in 1991 based on overwhelming evidence of their innocence.
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	Innocent UK website
Information Location 1:	http://www.innocent.org.uk/cases/birmingham6/
Information Source 2:	"The Psychology of Interrogations, Confessions and Testimony, Gisli H. Gudjonsson, John Wiley & Sons, 1992, p. 268-273"
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Hugh Callaghan

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

16

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1975

Year Cleared:

1991

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

United Kingdom

County or Region of Crime:

England

City of Crime:

Birmingham

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Hugh Callaghan was one of the Birmingham Six. Convicted in August 1975 of bombing two Birmingham city centre pubs in which 21 people died. Their convictions were reversed in 1991 based on overwhelming evidence of their innocence.

Conviction Caused By:

Innocence Proved By:

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

Innocent UK website

Information Location 1:

http://www.innocent.org.uk/cases/birmingham6/

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"The Psychology of Interrogations, Confessions and Testimony, Gisli H. Gudjonsson, John Wiley & Sons, 1992, p. 268-273"

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