... to life imprisonment in 1975 in an infamous miscarriage of justice for two pub bombings in Birmingham that killed 24 people. Their convictions were overturned by the Court of appeal on March 15, 1991 largely on the basis that traces of nitro-glycerine found on their bodies could have come from innocuous sources such as soap. The judge at the appeal famously declared of the police witnesses at the original trial "they must have lied". When the six men were in custody they were beaten and forced to give statements. Explanations of each of the general police powers: Stop and search - This comes under sections 1 - 7 and comes under code A. of the police and criminal evidence act 1984. This gives the police the power to stop and search people and vehicles for stolen goods and offensive weapons on the basis of reasonable suspicion in a public place. Public place ...

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