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Guildford Four and Maguire Seven. 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 ...
Oct 20, 2019 · It felt like a Hollywood moment. Minutes earlier, the four had been cleared of their wrongful conviction for the Guildford and Woolwich pub bombings. After 15 years, justice had finally been done.
- Chas Newkey-Burden
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Oct 5, 2022 · The Guildford Four - Paul Hill, Gerry Conlon, Paddy Armstrong, and Carole Richardson - were wrongfully convicted of the Guildford Pub bombings which killed five on October 5, 1974 and 15 years in ...
Mar 6, 2020 · Guildford Four: how the innocent were framed and the truth buried. Gerry Conlon leaving the Old Bailey. On October 5, 1974 two public houses in Guildford, Surrey were bombed by the IRA without warning causing five deaths and over 60 injuries of varying severity. The bombs were placed in the pubs with timing devices to detonate when the bomb ...
Oct 4, 2014 · In October 1989, the Guildford Four were released from jail. Their convictions for blowing up two pubs in the Surrey town during an IRA bombing campaign had been quashed.
- Martin Mcnamara
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.
Apr 5, 2019 · Forty-five years ago, three men and one woman became mired in a notorious miscarriage of justice that continues to tarnish the name of British justice.
