Witness claims ‘head of the IRA’ gave permission for identities to be revealed
He added, in apparent reference to the“There is nobody going to be charged with this atrocity. The British government have signed an agreement with the IRA.”All the men have been named before in connection with the bombings, but not in a formal setting.
Witness O, who was in prison at the time of the bomb attacks, described the bombings as “an atrocity”.just days after the bombings, but heard nothing more. He added that two other men, who he identified as “Dublin Dave” and “Socks” had also been involved, but that he did not know either man’s name.The witness, who told the jury he was a convicted IRA bomber who served a prison sentence in the 1970s, replied: “No, I don’t remember him at all. Reilly? I would remember that.”
The barrister then used an alleged reference to Mr Reilly, used in the book Error of Judgement by former MP and journalist, when he asked the former IRA man: “Michael Patrick Reilly, sometimes referred to as ‘The Young Planter’?The witness replied: “Who? Protecting who? No. “My situation was I was in Manchester, and I came to Birmingham and I was only in Birmingham a couple of weeks.”
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