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The Guildford Four and Maguire Seven were two groups of people, mostly Irish, who were wrongly convicted in English courts in 1975 and 1976 for the Guildford pub bombings of 5 October 1974, [1] and the Woolwich pub bombing of 7 November 1974. All the convictions were eventually quashed after long campaigns for justice, and the cases, along with ...
Mar 6, 2020 · Alastair Logan is a retired solicitor who represented the Guildford Four and Maguire Seven and the defendants in eight other terrorist trials between 1974 and 1985. Alastair has represented many applicants in the European Court of Human Rights and now retired continues to work in the field of human rights.
Nov 19, 2018 · The Maguire family were blamed for being behind the Guildford and Woolwich pub bombings in 1974. Anne Maguire told BBC NI documentary A Great British Injustice that she still cries when she is on ...
The Guildford Four and the Maguire Seven were the first to be arrested and questioned under the new powers of PTA 1974. They were arrested for alleged involvement on behalf of the IRA, in the bombings of pubs in Guildford and Woolwich which killed five people and injure over a 100.
Nov 30, 2018 · Using violence, abuse and intimidation, they forced the Guildford Four to make coerced self-incriminating statements. Those statements were mutually inconsistent on over 100 points. Nevertheless, they amounted to an admission that the Guildford Four had taken part in the Guildford bombings.
Jun 23, 2023 · Alastair Logan is a retired solicitor who represented the Guildford Four and Maguire Seven and the defendants in eight other terrorist trials between 1974 and 1985. Alastair has represented many applicants in the European Court of Human Rights and now retired continues to work in the field of human rights.
Feb 9, 2010 · Seven of their relatives and friends, called the Maguire Seven, were sentenced to lesser terms on the basis of questionable forensic evidence. In 1989, in the face of growing public protest and...
