Forever Lost, Forever Gone

by Gerard Hunt (Author), Paddy Joe Hill (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1995

  $3.29

  In 1974 Paddy Joe Hill was charged alongside five other men with the biggest mass murder on the British mainland - the Birmingham pub bombings. Arrested and brutally beaten by members of the West Midlands Serious Crime Squad (since disbanded), Hill was condemned by false scientific evidence. He was deprived of his freedom for sixteen years, three months and twenty-three days. Paddy Joe recreates his rough and tumble Belfast childhood, his struggles as a young petty villain in Birmingham and later as a man on the straight and narrow with a growing family. Disturbingly frank about his own rage and fear, Hill evokes the events leading up to his arrest, his rebellions against the system, his gradual alienation from his family, the nail-biting appeals, the elation of at last regaining his freedom. Released from the culture of violence in Britain's prison system, Hill offers constructive ideas about judicial and penal reform and an account of the pain of readjustment in the outside world.

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  Paperback
  1996

  $11.96

  In 1974 Paddy Joe Hill was charged alongside five other men with the biggest mass murder on the Britih mainland - the Birmingham pub bombings. Arrested and beaten by members of the West Midlands Serious Crime Squad, Hill was condemned by false scientific evidence. He was deprived of his freedom for 16 years, three months and 23 days. Paddy Joe rebelled against the system from the outset, enduring frequent spells in solitary confinement as the authorities tried to keep him down. With his wife and family suffering on the outside, Paddy Joe campaigned obsessively against the convictions - and gradually the world started to listen. After the nail-biting appeals and the elation of at last regaining his freedom, he was to face one of the toughest challenges of all - rebuilding his life in a world he could barely recognise.