BILLY IRVING’S toddler son William and fiancée Yvonne MacHugh will be at 10 Downing Street today – the fourth anniversary of his incarceration in India – to hand over a massive petition pleading for government action to have him freed.
Exactly four years ago today, October 12, 2013, Indian authorities detained 35 security men, including Connel man Billy and five other British ex-servicemen, on board the anti-pirate patrol vessel Seaman Guard Ohio.
In January 2016 the ‘Chennai 6’ – Billy, John Armstrong, Nick Dunn, Nick Simpson, Paul Towers and Ray Tindall – were convicted of offences relating to the importation of their weapons into Indian territorial waters when the vessel went to refuel.