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Mar 13, 2018 · Patrick "Guiseppe" Conlon already had tuberculosis when he was jailed on 4 March 1976. The government drew up a secret plan to release a man wrongly convicted over IRA bombs in...
Gerard Patrick "Gerry" Conlon (1 March 1954 – 21 June 2014) was a Northern Irish man known for being one of the Guildford Four who spent 15 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of being a Provisional IRA bomber.
Giuseppe Conlon had travelled from Belfast to help his son, Gerry Conlon, in the Guildford Four trial. Conlon, who had troubles with his lungs for many years, died in prison in January 1980, while the other six served their sentences and were released.
Mar 13, 2018 · Guiseppe Conlon died in 1980 after being wrongly convicted of the Guildford bombing. A Belfast man who died while imprisoned on a wrongful conviction over an IRA bomb was to be released, it's...
The Guildford Four were held in prison for fifteen years, while Giuseppe Conlon died near the end of his third year of imprisonment.
Aug 14, 2023 · Giuseppe Conlon had travelled from Belfast to help his son, Gerry but found himself caught up in false charges. In late 1979, Mr Conlon fell ill while locked up in Wormwood Scrubs prison in...
Jun 12, 2011 · Giuseppe Conlon’s health continues to deteriorate in Wormwood Scrubs prison. He dies on Jan 23rd 1980, the same day Home Secretary William Whitelaw decides to grant him parole.
Jun 25, 2011 · Forensic tests used to convict Giuseppe Conlon (and other members of the Maguire Seven) for the 1974 Guildford and Woolwich pub bombings are found to be unsound.
Jun 21, 2014 · However, Giuseppe Conlon died in prison in 1980, still protesting his innocence, and never saw his son released. His sentence was posthumously overturned by the Court of Appeal along with those of the Maguires in June 1991. The Birmingham Six had their convictions overturned on appeal in the same year.
Jun 21, 2014 · Gerry Conlon, who was wrongly convicted of the 1974 Guildford IRA pub bombing, external, has died aged 60 after an illness.
