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Jun 21, 2014 · Sat 21 Jun 2014 11.27 EDT. Gerry Conlon, one of four people wrongly convicted of carrying out the IRA bombing of a Guildford pub in 1974, has died. Conlon, 60, who passed away overnight in his ...
Aug 14, 2023 · Picture by Cliff Donaldson Gerry Conlon spent 15 years in prison after being wrongly convicted for the Guildford pub bombings. Picture by Cliff Donaldson . Mr Moscia said: “It is an honour for ...
Jun 23, 2014 · Gerry Conlon, wrongly jailed for a 1975 IRA bombing in which he had no part, died on June 21 at the age of 60. The case of the Guildford Four remains one the most famous miscarriage of justice in ...
Jun 21, 2014 · Gerry Conlon, one of the so-called Guildford Four who were wrongly convicted over an IRA pub bombing in 1974, has died aged 60. He was jailed for life the following year - along with Paul Hill ...
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Conlon, Gerard (‘Gerry’) (1954–2014), victim of a miscarriage of justice and human rights campaigner, was born in Cyprus Street in the Lower Falls area of Belfast on 1 March 1954, the only surviving son of Guiseppe Conlon (qv), a labourer, and Sarah Conlon (qv) (née Maguire), a cleaner; he had two younger sisters. His parents previously ...
Jun 21, 2014 · Gerry Conlon, center, released from prison in 1989 after a British judge exonerated him and three others in a suspected IRA bombing in 1974. His ordeal was depicted in the film “In the Name of ...
Gerry Conlon later joined a campaign to free the "Craigavon Two", Brendan McConville and John Paul Wootton, convicted of the murder of a police officer in Northern Ireland. Conlon died at home in Belfast on 21 June 2014. His family issued a statement: "He brought life, love, intelligence, wit and strength to our family through its darkest hours.
