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The Guildford pub bombings occurred on 5 October 1974 when the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonated two 6-pound (2.7-kilogram) gelignite bombs at two pubs in Guildford, Surrey, England. The pubs were targeted because they were popular with British Army personnel stationed at Pirbright barracks. Four soldiers and one civilian were ...
Conviction quashed by Court of Appeal on 19 October 1989 [2] 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.
- Gerard Conlon, 1 March 1954, Belfast, Northern Ireland
- Convicted on 22 October 1975 and sentenced to life imprisonment
- Guildford pub bombings on 5 October 1974
- Conviction quashed by Court of Appeal on 19 October 1989
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Jul 21, 2022 · By Tanya Gupta. BBC News. Four soldiers and a civilian died in the Guildford pub bombings on 5 October 1974. Pen portraits were read out for each person at a resumed inquest into the deaths. The ...
Jul 21, 2022 · The Guildford pub bombings in 1974 killed five and injured 65 and led to one of Britain's biggest miscarriages of justice when the Guildford Four and Maguire Seven were jailed. An IRA unit later ...
Jan 31, 2019 · The bomb attacks took place on 5 October 1974, in two pubs popular with British army personnel in Guildford, Surrey. Soldiers Ann Hamilton, 19, Caroline Slater, 18, William Forsyth, 18, and John ...
The inquest into the deaths of five people killed in the 1974 bombings should resume, a coroner has ruled. This is what we know.
