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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.
Mar 29, 2021 · 29 March 2021. Guildford pub bombs inquest. Getty Images. Bombs went off at two pubs in Guildford on 5 October 1974. By Tanya Gupta. BBC News. An attempt by police to keep the names of...
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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Mar 29, 2021 · The wrongly-convicted Guildford Four served 15 years in jail. ... Pub bombings inquest targets classified files. Guildford Four man refused inquest role. Guildford Four man's offer 'to help inquest'
Dec 31, 2019 · BBC News. More than 700 files on the 1974 IRA Guildford pub bombings have been taken back by the Home Office and will remain closed, the BBC has learned. The files, which were due to open on...
Apr 8, 2024 · BBC News, South East. Police have known about new evidence on the Guildford pub bombs since 2020, it has been claimed. It has emerged a new forensic lead has come to light nearly 50 years after...
Apr 5, 2019 · The Guildford Four, Maguire Seven, Birmingham Six. These notorious miscarriages of justice are a stain on the name of British justice.
