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Conlon, along with fellow Irishmen Paul Michael Hill and Paddy Armstrong and Englishwoman Carole Richardson, known as the Guildford Four, were convicted on 22 October 1975 of planting two bombs a year earlier in the Surrey town of Guildford, which killed five people and injured dozens more.
52. 12 years; died in prison in 1980. 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.
Jun 23, 2023 · Over 40 years later, on 31 st October 2017, a firm of solicitors sent a letter to the Surrey Coroner on behalf of Ann McKernan, the sister of Gerard Conlon, one of the Guildford Four, who had died in 2014, asking that the inquests into those deaths be resumed.
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Oct 19, 2021 · For the three men, all of whom in their twenties at the time of the trial, sentences of 30 years for Gerry Conlon, 35 for Paddy Armstrong and until “great age” for Paul Hill were recommended. Both the Guildford Four and the Maguire Seven initially sought leave to appeal and were refused.
Apr 4, 2024 · Wrongly convicted Gerry Conlon, Paddy Armstrong, Paul Hill and Carole Richardson served 15 years in jail Ms Hamilton added that the family did not know what the evidence was - whether it was a...
Jun 22, 2014 · As a member of the Guildford Four, a victim of one of Britain's worst miscarriages of justice. Gareth Peirce. Sun 22 Jun 2014 15.34 EDT. When Gerry Conlon, who has died aged 60 of lung cancer, met ...
In December 1974, the police arrested three men and a woman, later known as the Guildford Four. One of the four, Gerry Conlon , had been in London at the time of the bombings, and had visited his mother's sister, Annie Maguire.
