Birmingham pub bombings: Chris Mullin wins fight to protect source

Chris Mullin is supported by the general secretary of the National Union of Journalists, Michelle Stanistreet, and other NUJ members outside the Old Bailey in London last month. Photograph: James Manning/PA

Chris Mullin, the journalist and former MP, has won the right to protect his sources in a historic freedom of the press case at the Old Bailey.

Judge Lucraft ruled that it was not in the public interest to force Mullin to hand over data that would identify a man who had confessed his role in the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings.