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Conlon, along with fellow Irishmen Paul Michael Hill and Paddy Armstrong and Englishwoman Carole Richardson, known as the Guildford Four, [6] were convicted on 22 October 1975 of planting two bombs a year earlier in the Surrey town of Guildford, which killed five people and injured dozens more. [2]
Giuseppe Conlon had travelled from Belfast to help his son, Gerry Conlon, in the Guildford Four trial. Conlon, who had troubles with his lungs for many years, died in prison in January 1980, while the other six served their sentences and were released.
Jun 21, 2014 · Gerry Conlon, who was wrongly convicted of the 1974 Guildford IRA pub bombing, external, has died aged 60 after an illness. He was one of the Guildford Four, who spent 15 years in prison...
Aug 14, 2023 · Conlon refused to quietly slope away to freedom, having been wrongly imprisoned as one of the Guildford Four, after the Provisional IRA’s bombing of two pubs in the town in southern England in...
Jan 31, 2019 · Gerry Conlon, Paddy Armstrong, Paul Hill and Carole Richardson, were jailed for life at the Old Bailey on 22 October 1975. All had made signed confessions which they later retracted. They alleged...
Jun 21, 2014 · The Guildford Four — Gerry Conlon, Paul Hill, Carole Richardson and Paddy Armstrong — were jailed for life in 1975 for an IRA bombing campaign which killed five people and injured 65.
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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.
