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Mar 6, 2020 · The Guildford Four were released in October 1989 after the Avon and Somerset police had discovered evidence which showed that, as the Lord Chief Justice was to state at the hearing of the appeal when the convictions were quashed, ‘the police must have lied’. That evidence was never shown to the Guildford Four.
Despite claims to the police that they were responsible they were never charged with these offences and the Guildford Four remained in prison for another twelve years. [ citation needed ] The Guildford Four tried to obtain from the Home Secretary a reference to the Court of Appeal under Section 17 of the Criminal Appeal Act 1968 (later repealed ...
Oct 5, 2022 · Editor’s Note: Paul Hill, Gerry Conlon, Paddy Armstrong, and Carole Richardson, known as the Guilford Four, spent 15 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of the Guildford Pub...
Oct 4, 2014 · The Guildford Four were released from jail 25 years ago, after serving years in jail for crimes they did not commit. The prison letters of one of the men, Paul Hill, tell his story.
- Martin Mcnamara
- Irish Post
- Paul Hill – the first man arrested for the bombing. Paul Hill was arrested November 29, 1974 his friend Gerry Conlon (pictured above) was arrested November 30 and their old Belfast school mate Paddy Armstrong and his English girlfriend Carole Richardson were arrested on December 3.
- The trial's judge handed Hill a life sentence. At their trial, Paul Hill was given what was, at the time, the longest sentence ever handed down by an English court; life with no chance of parole until great age or infirmity.
- 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.
- Hill was moved from prison to prison. Paul Hill was ‘ghosted’ more than 50 times during his 15 years in prison. ‘ Ghosted’ is when a prisoner is moved without warning to another prison, usually in the middle of the night.
Feb 9, 2010 · October | 19. Choose another date. 1989. Guildford Four are cleared of IRA bombings. On October 19, 1989, the Guildford Four, convicted of the 1975 IRA bombings of public houses in...
Apr 5, 2019 · They exonerated the Guildford Four. Despite all this it would take 15 years and a lengthy, frustrating campaign that garnered support from former Law Lords and Home Secretaries, including Roy ...
