Crusading MP is victim of death threats
FORMER Labour MP Chris Mullin arrived to give evidence at the inquest yesterday flanked by three burly security guards after receiving death threats.
No details about the threats were revealed but they were said to have been made overnight before his appearance at the Birmingham Civil Justice Centre hearing.
Mr Mullin, 71, who wrote a book about the wrongful convictions of the Birmingham Six, has previously named those he believes are responsible.
The former MP for Sunderland South was also accompanied by G S security guards as he left the inquest and will give evidence again next week.
A ‘missing’ parcel bomb posted without a proper address was found yesterday at a post office in Ireland.
Police said the device appears identical to four sent to addresses – and recovered – in Britain. A group calling itself the IRA had claimed it sent five.
The package found yesterday in Limerick had a return-to-sender note saying ‘Irelan [sic] Tourism’ and officials confirmed it could be the ‘missing’ bomb.