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Birmingham Six

Six men wrongly convicted in 1975 of the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings; their convictions were quashed in 1991 partly on the basis of ESDA evidence showing that interview record pages were inconsistent with the claimed writing sequence.

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3D optical scanningCorona wireESDA (Electrostatic Detection Apparatus)ESDA liftFoster+Freeman ESDA 2Indented writingMylar filmPACE (Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984)Sequence evidence

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