News about Christopher Stanley

Following the news that no one will face charges related to the atrocity, the families of those killed in the Birmingham pub bombings expressed their indignation on Sunday. Despite being identified by lawyers and confessing to involvement on television, the Crown Prosecution Service said there was insufficient evidence to proceed with a lawsuit against a perpetrator. We have been let down and treated with nothing but contempt for decades,' Julie Hambleton, whose 18-year-old sister Maxine was one of the 21 people killed in the 1974 IRA attack, said. 'This is just the latest example of that.' In two city centre pubs on November 21, 1974, two20 people were wounded after the devices exploded within minutes of each other. The Birmingham Six were found guilty of the murders, but the sentences were overturned 16 years later as one of Britain's biggest miscarriages of justice.

The widow of an Army officer killed on a Cyprus RAF base when he was struck by a US serviceman's car is suing for a new inquest into 'discrepancies' in witness accounts of his death. Colour Sergeant Anthony Oxley, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, died while on deployment in June 2016 after a fire at the RAF Akrotiri base. When he was injured in a collision involving a Toyota Corolla driven by an American serviceman, the 40-year-old, who was from Ryhill, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, was riding his bike. He left a daughter and three stepchildren behind.