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Gerry Conlon. Gerard "Gerry" Conlon ( Belfast, 1 de març de 1954 – Belfast, 21 de juny de 2014) fou un activista polític en defensa dels drets humans nord-irlandès. [1] Considerat com un dels Quatre de Guildford, passà 15 anys a la presó després de ser condemnat erròniament de col·locar bombes de l' IRA Provisional. [2]
Jun 22, 2014 · Sun Jun 22 2014 - 12:13. Gerry Conlon, who spent 15 years in jail for a crime he did not commit, has died in Belfast at the age of 60. Mr Conlon was jailed for life in 1975 for the bombing of two ...
Nov 29, 2022 · The Guildford Four and Maguire Seven were the collective names of two groups whose convictions in English courts in 1975 and 1976 for the Guildford pub bombings of 5 October 1974 were eventually quashed after long campaigns for justice.
Jan 13, 2020 · Paddy Armstrong, Gerry Conlon, Paul Hill and Carole Richardson were wrongly convicted of carrying out the 1974 IRA bomb attacks on the Horse and Groom and the Seven Stars pubs in Guildford. They became known as the ‘Guildford Four’. Five people were killed and 65 were injured. No one has ever been lawfully punished for the offences.
Jun 21, 2014 · Conlon’s ordeal was made into the film In the Name of the Father by the Irish director Jim Sheridan in 1993, with Daniel Day Lewis playing Conlon. The case of the Guildford Four was one of two ...
Aug 18, 2023 · Guildford Four family to sue pub bomb police forces. 18 August 2023. By Tanya Gupta,BBC News. PA Media. Gerry Conlon, seen here with his sisters outside the Old Bailey, was freed in 1989. The ...
Oct 21, 2021 · The Four served a combined prison sentence of 60 years. 8. The Pogues penned song about the Four. The Pogues song, Street Of Sorrow/Birmingham Six, about both the Guildford Four and the Birmingham Six, was banned under the same legislation used in the late 1980s to stop the broadcast of direct interviews with members of Sinn Fein. 9.
