On Dec 31 2011, 8:52*pm, ian batten wrote:
On Dec 31, 4:09*pm, furnessvale wrote:

As a policeman [...] we
knew who had to be off the streets.

Nothing I have said has even implied that innocent men would be
"stitched up" simply that known villains would be reported for
motoring offences at every opportunity to deprive them of their wheels
which form such an integral part of their criminal activity.

The police knew that the Birmingham Six were guilty. *The only problem
is that they weren't.

What a pity that the more advance forensic tests now available weren't
available at the time of the appeal. The discredited griese test has
now been vindicated by more modern methods but, as you know, once
aquitted on appeal, no one can be reinstated as guilty.

George