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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.
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 ...
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Jun 21, 2014 · Gerry Conlon, who was wrongly convicted of the 1974 Guildford IRA pub bombing, external, has died aged 60 after an illness. He was one of the Guildford Four, who spent 15 years in prison...
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.
Paul Hill, Gerry Conlon, Paddy Armstrong, and Carole Richardson (known as the Guildford Four) were convicted of murder for blowing up two pubs in Guildford. Conlon and Hill were identified as suspects as they were residents of Northern Ireland who had been in the area. The four all signed confessions under intense coercion from police.
Jun 21, 2014 · 2:23. Wrongly Convicted Conlon Dies. Why you can trust Sky News. Gerry Conlon, one of the so-called Guildford Four who were wrongly convicted over an IRA pub bombing in 1974, has died aged 60.