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Mar 13, 2018 · Mr Conlon was one of the Maguire Seven, convicted on explosives charges, and his son Gerry was one of the Guildford Four, jailed for murder after the pub bombings killed five and injured 65 ...
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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 ...
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The Guildford Four were held in prison for fifteen years, while Giuseppe Conlon died near the end of his third year of imprisonment. All the convictions were overturned years later in the appeal courts after it was proved the Guildford Four's convictions had been based on confessions obtained by torture (as were some Maguire Seven confessions ...
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- 5 October 1974, 20:30 – 21:00 (BST)
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Jun 21, 2014 · Gerry Conlon the first of the Guildford Four to be freed, outside the Old Bailey, London, 19 Oct 1989. Photograph: TS/Keystone USA/Rex. ... Giuseppe Conlon died in prison in 1980, still protesting ...
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. The four were sentenced to life in prison.
- 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
Mar 13, 2018 · Belfast man Patrick "Guiseppe" Conlon was jailed with his son and nine others after two explosions in Guildford in 1974, and died of tuberculosis in 1980. But had he recovered, he would have been ...
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 ...
