Six Irishmen were arrested within hours of the blasts and in 1975 sentenced to life imprisonment for the bombings. The men—who became known as the Birmingham Six—maintained their innocence and insisted police had coerced them into signing false confessions through severe physical and psychological abuse. After 16 years in prison and a lengthy campaign their convictions were declared unsafe and unsatisfactory and quashed by the Court of Appeal in 1991. (21 November 1974)
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Sunday 12th of April 1998 (-) — Victim of Donato Bilancia aka Il Mostro della Liguria Elisabetta Zoppetti is shot dead by Donato Bilancia aka Il Mostro della Liguria. Bilancia boarded the Intercity La Spezia - Venice because he "wanted to kill a woman". He broke into the bathroom of the wagon and shot Zopetti.