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Conlon continued to protest his innocence, insisting that police had tortured him into making a false confession. On 19 October 1989, [2] his position was vindicated when the Guildford Four were freed after the Court of Appeal in London ruled that police had fabricated the handwritten interrogation notes used in the conviction.
- Gerard Conlon, 1 March 1954, Belfast, Northern Ireland
- Convicted on 22 October 1975 and sentenced to life imprisonment
- Guildford pub bombings on 5 October 1974
- Conviction quashed by Court of Appeal on 19 October 1989
3 days ago · In 2013 after The Guardian published a story about the then Secretary of State’s plan to cut legal aid for prisoners it resulted in a furious response from solicitors, experts and those who had suffered a miscarriage of justice like Gerry Conlon (one of the Guilford Four). A few years later, in 2015, Sir Alan Moses, who had been a judge for ...
1 day ago · Fate would have it that Gerry Conlon, along with the others, would all receive life sentences. Conlon entered as a twenty-yearold and emerged after fifteen years as a man of thirty-five. The Guilford Four and the others were utterly betrayed in every conceivable manner in our nation, which boasts that it strives for justice.
4 days ago · Sinn Fein were on a roll. People like Gerry Adams, Mary Lou McDonald and lesser Sinn Fein mortals had been busy litigating and doing rather nicely. And we were septuagenarian freelance journalists with no organisations behind us. Malachi feared losing his house. I knew I could be bankrupted. We must have looked like easy meat.
5 days ago · The plaque honouring the many shows that have been filmed in the region was erected on Friday at 3 p.m. outside Mellon's Shop on the South Lotts Road. South Lotts Road doubled as a Belfast Street for Jim Sheridan's “In the Name of the Father,” which starred Daniel Day-Lewis as Gerry Conlon and was largely filmed in Ringsend.
1 day ago · 0:00. 0:37. Sioux Falls police were justified in shooting a man at a long-term behavioral healthcare facility last month, officials with the South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation ruled ...
5 days ago · The shooting last week of Chris Corrigan’s Jim Dixon sent shockwaves through the community and also catapulted Blackthorn Police Station into a flurry of activity. Although you wouldn’t have known it from the start of this week’s episode, as Katherine Devlin’s PC Annie Conlon and Frank Blake’s PC Shane Bradley woke up in bed together ...
