By Richard Spillett, Crime Correspondent For Mailonline
Published: 13:21 BST, 5 April 2019 | Updated: 13:34 BST, 5 April 2019
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A botched warning call by the IRA caused or contributed to the deaths of 21 people killed in the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings, an inquest jury has found.
A jury at the city’s civil court concluded all the victims were unlawfully killed, following a direction from coroner Sir Peter Thornton QC.
Two massive detonations caused what one witness described as "pure carnage", ripping apart the packed Mulberry Bush and Tavern in the Town pubs on the night of November 21, killing 21 and injuring 220 more.
A jury panel, which sat for almost six weeks and deliberated for almost five hours, unanimously determined that an inadequate warning call by the
