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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 ...
Jan 3, 2021 · Paul Michael Hill Guildford Four. Paul Michael Hill, Gerry Conlon, Paddy Armstrong and Carole Richardson, known as the Guilford Four, were wrongfully convicted of the Guildford Pub bombings, which took place in 1974. Gerry Conlon’s father, Giuseppe, was also stitched up for the “crime” and died in jail.
Jan 31, 2019 · Getty Images. Five people died in the blast at the Horse & Groom on 5 October 1974. The bomb attacks took place on 5 October 1974, in two pubs popular with British army personnel in Guildford ...
Oct 21, 2021 · 3. An active IRA unit confessed to the bombings. In January 1977, an active IRA service unit, nicknamed the Balcombe Street gang, issued a statement in court confessing they carried out the Guildford and Woolwich bombings and that the Four were completely innocent. 4. Hill was moved from prison to prison.
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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 ...
Jul 21, 2022 · By Tanya Gupta, BBC News. BBC. (Clockwise from top left) Paul Craig, 21, Caroline Slater, 18, John Hunter, 17, William Forsyth, 18, Ann Hamilton, 19, died in an explosion at the Horse and Groom ...
Apr 4, 2024 · New evidence on the Guildford pub bombings has emerged 50 years after the IRA detonated two devices in the town. Surrey Police told a family of one of the five people killed in the attack that the ...
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