Louise Hunt, senior coroner for Birmingham and Solihull, announced the decision after holding several review hearings and receiving “significant” new information about the double bombing. Julie Hambleton, sister of one of the victims, said that those who lost loved ones wanted “truth, justice and accountability” Ben Birchall/PAPolice may have missed two opportunities to stop the Birmingham pub bombings after failing to investigate tip-offs about the attack, a coroner who reopened the inquests into the deaths of the 21 victims said today. During recent hearings, families of some of those killed in the blasts on November 21, 1974, in the Mulberry Bush and Tavern in the Town pubs put forward a claim that the British state had knowledge of the attacks planned

Source: The Times June 01, 2016 10:57 UTC