Bereaved families vow to fight on after pub bomings ruling

Bereaved families described feeling as if they had been “punched in the stomach” after leading judges upheld a coroner’s decision not to investigate who was responsible for the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings.

Speaking after Lord Chief Justice Lord Burnett and two other Court of Appeal judges ruled that Sir Peter Thornton QC had made “no error of law” in reaching his decision, they said they would continue to fight for “truth, justice and accountability”.

The bombings in two city centre pubs, widely believed tobetheworkoftheira,killed 21 people and injured 182, making it the deadliest peacetime attack in the UK at the time.