HC Deb 29 January 1986 vol 90 c521W
Mr. Stephen Ross

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what review is currently taking place into the claim that those sentenced to long terms of imprisonment for their part in the Birmingham bomb outrage of the early 1970s can now prove their innocence.

Mr. Mellor

My right hon. Friend is examining the case carefully in order to determine whether material which has been sent to him contains new evidence of a kind which would make it appropriate for him to refer the case to the Court of Appeal.