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Oct 21, 2021 · The Four served a combined prison sentence of 60 years. 8. The Pogues penned song about the Four. The Pogues song, Street Of Sorrow/Birmingham Six, about both the Guildford Four and the Birmingham Six, was banned under the same legislation used in the late 1980s to stop the broadcast of direct interviews with members of Sinn Fein. 9.
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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 ...
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. Biography.
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Oct 19, 2021 · Gerry’s father, Giuseppe Conlon, travelled from Belfast to London to help his son get proper legal representation. He was arrested, along with a further six family members known as the ‘Maguire Seven’, all seven being charged with being the bomb makers of the explosives used in the Guildford bombings.
Oct 4, 2014 · Paul Hill, Gerry Conlon, Paddy Armstrong, and Carole Richardson all made signed confessions and were charged with the Guildford bombings. All four would retract their statements, claiming they had ...
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Jun 11, 1990 · One of four innocent people convicted of a terrorist bombing in Guildford, England, tells of the miscarriage of justice that resulted in imprisonment for himself and members of his family, including his father, and describes the struggle to clear his name and gain his freedom.
