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Oct 6, 2017 · The law firm also represents Ann McKernan, sister of Guildford Four member Gerry Conlon. ... former judge Sir John May carried out a five-year probe into the case, and wrote in his final report ...
Background on the cases of the Guildford Four and the Maguire Seven In the months before the Birmingham Bombings [see U DMU/5/1], a similar IRA campaign was underway in and around Greater London. This led to the bombings of two pubs in Guildford ('The Horse and Groom' and 'The Seven Stars') on 5th October 1974 and a pub in Woolwich ('The King's ...
Jun 21, 2014 · Conlon’s ordeal was made into the film In the Name of the Father by the Irish director Jim Sheridan in 1993, with Daniel Day Lewis playing Conlon. The case of the Guildford Four was one of two ...
Mar 13, 2018 · Mr Conlon was one of the Maguire Seven, convicted on explosives charges, and his son Gerry was one of the Guildford Four, jailed for murder after the pub bombings killed five and injured 65.
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 ...
1989. Paul Hill, Gerry Conlon, Paddy Armstrong, and Carole Richardson (known as the Guildford Four) were convicted of murder for blowing up two pubs in Guildford. Conlon and Hill were identified as suspects as they were residents of Northern Ireland who had been in the area. The four all signed confessions under intense coercion from police.
Oct 5, 2017 · Gerry Conlon emerges from the Old Bailey Court in London after the Guildford Four are were released in 1989. Picture by Hugh Russell. Conlon had to resort to scavenging from bins when drug abuse ...
