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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Jessica Murray Midlands correspondent

FOUND: Paddy hill one of wrongly convicted birmingham six dies aged 80 - You Need To See This

Paddy Hill stares directly and firmly into the camera in a portrait photo: he wears a warm jumper and jacket with sheepskin lining and is photographed outdoors sitting in front of a wooden fence. He has grey hair and blue eyes.
Paddy Hill, photographed here in 2010, spent 16 years in prison before his conviction was overturned in 1991. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

Paddy Hill, one of six men wrongly convicted for the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings, who went on to set up an organisation dedicated to helping others facing miscarriages of justice, has died aged 80.

Cathy Molloy, the recently retired chief executive officer of the Miscarriages of Justice Organisation (Mojo), which Hill founded, said he “died peacefully at his home in Ayrshire, cared for by his wife, Tara, on Monday morning”.

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