The unluckiest of six unlucky men: a tribute to Hugh Callaghan
One of the Birmingham Six wrongly jailed for IRA pub bombings in 1974, has died aged 93. LOUISE RAW remembers him and his shocking story
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WHEN Hugh Callaghan walked up to the front door of his Birmingham home one night in November 1974, he had no idea that what he called his “quiet, ordinary” life was about to be destroyed.
Before Hugh could turn his key, the door flew open, pushed from the inside. He was dragged in by his lapels and thrown up against the wall by a man he’d never seen before, who pressed a gun to his temple.
Callaghan was being arrested by Special Branch; a long, Kafkaesque nightmare was just beginning.
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