Fresh inquests into the deaths of 21 people who died in the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings offer an opportunity for the perpetrators to come forward, said Canon Janet Chapman after Birmingham's top coroner ordered them in view of ‘significant’ new information that West Midlands Police missed two potential warnings of the bomb attacks. Canon Chapman belongs to Birmingham Cathedral, which has been holding an annual vigil for the victims of the double bombing, which struck two pubs in 1974. Explaining her hopes for the new inquests, she said, ‘I think it is about discovering more about the truth. It is a desperate situation with the gross miscarriage of justice over forty years ago. As I have worked in the cathedral and have got to know some of the victims of the families, I can see the heartache they carry because they do not know the truth.’