There is to be no new investigation into the Birmingham pub bombings for which a Derry man was wrongly convicted.
Relatives of the 21 people killed in the blasts, who had compiled a dossier for a new probe, have been told by West Midlands Police there is to be no new inquiry into the bombings.
Twenty one people were killed and almost 200 injured in the blasts at the The Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town on 21 November, 1974.
Six men from Northern Ireland, who became known as the “Birmingham Six,” were tried and convicted of the killings and jailed for life in 1975.
Among them was Derry man John Walkers. The others were Paddy Hill, Gerry Hunter, Hugh Callaghan, Richard McIlkenny and Billy Power.
They were all released on 14 March 1991 after their convictions were declared unsafe and unsatisfactory and quashed by the Court of Appeal at the Old Bailey.
Several thousand people turned out to welcome Mr Walker when he returned home to Derry.
The six men were later awarded compensation ranging from £840,000 to £1.2 million.
The real bombers have never been prosecuted.
The family of one of the victims, Maxine Hambleton, is campaigning for the case to be reopened.
A previous police investigation closed in 1994.
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