The British government was challenged today to apologise to the six men wrongfully convicted for the Birmingham pub bombings.
One of the men jailed, Mr John Walker, said it was time Downing Street publicly acknowledged their innocence.
"Nobody ever apologised to us. We done sixteen-and-a-half years. What happened 30 years ago was a disaster. People say 21 people lost their lives that day. What about the six men who went to prison ? We lost our lives also."
Mr Walker said the government had not apologised for their years of incarceration.
"I felt sorry for what happened in Birmingham that night but people must remember I done sixteen-and-a-half years in prison for something I did not do," he added.
The six Irishmen who were jailed for the bombings were released in March 1991 following a long campaign for their freedom.
Mr Walker was speaking after a report that a Sinn Féin official has called on the IRA to apologise for the bombings which claimed 21 lives and maimed almost 200 people 30 years ago.
A Sinn Fein spokesman, commenting on the report, said if issues surrounding the IRA's role in the Birmingham bombings still needed to be addressed, it was his party's position that this should happen.
The IRA has never claimed responsibility for the bombs that blasted the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town pubs in the centre of Birmingham on November 21st, 1974.