1 November 202024 February 2023 4WardEverUK

UFFC Rally 2020 : Memorial family event takes place online

UFFC 2020 Online Memorial Video Feature — Click image to watch the film

source: 4WardEverUK
published: 1 November 2020

In October 2020 the United Families and Friends Campaign (UFFC) annual protest & rally moved online with a powerful video tribute that remembered the victims and heard from some of the families affected.

UFFC extended their thanks to Ken Fero of Migrant Media for compiling the film. It will remain online permanently for viewing at any time.

The film includes moving and powerful statements from and short clips about several families including those of Christopher Alder, Kingsley Burrell, Gaia Pope, Justice for the 96, Darren Neville, Sheku Bayoh, Cherry Groce, Jack Susianta, Allan Marshall and many others.

20 October 202022 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Birmingham pub bombings: Priti Patel to look at case for inquiry

source: BBC News
published: 19 October 2020

The home secretary is to consider the case for a public inquiry into the 1974 Birmingham Pub Bombings.

The blasts at the Mulberry Bush and Tavern in the Town pubs on the night of 21 November killed 21 people and injured 220.

For the next 31 years those bombings would be the deadliest attacks ever carried out in mainland England. They were surpassed in their carnage only by the London bombings of July 7 2005.

11 October 202022 December 2022 4WardEverUK

Pat Finucane: UK government ‘running down clock on inquiry’

source: BBC News
published: 9 October 2020

The government may be trying to “run down the clock” until a public inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane becomes pointless, the High Court has heard.

Counsel for his widow, Geraldine Finucane, claimed the delay in acting on a finding that his death has never been properly investigated is unlawful. The judge hearing her legal challenge also voiced increasing “unease” at the government response.

Mr Finucane, aged 39, was shot dead by loyalists at his Belfast home in 1989. His family has campaigned ever since for a public inquiry to establish the full scale of security force collusion in his murder.

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