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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 ...
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.
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Oct 5, 2022 · YouTube. On this day, October 5, 1974, a bombing by the IRA at a London pub killed five people. Editor’s Note: Paul Hill, Gerry Conlon, Paddy Armstrong, and Carole Richardson, known as the ...
Gerry Conlon. Gerard Patrick " Gerry " Conlon (1 March 1954 – 21 June 2014) was an Irish man known for being one of the Guildford Four who spent 15 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of being a Provisional IRA bomber.
Mar 1, 2020 · O’Rawe, who wrote the play with Belfast playwright Martin Lynch, said the experience of dramatising Conlon’s life after 15 years in jail was “one of the hardest things I have ever had to do”.
Apr 5, 2019 · Fifteen is a short film that tells the story of the Guildford Four and has been selected to be part of the Belfast Film Festival, which runs from 11 to 20 April. Related
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Oct 21, 2021 · 7. A long sentence The Four served a combined prison sentence of 60 years. 8. The Pogues penned song about the Four. The Pogues song, Street Of Sorrow/Birmingham Six, about both the Guildford Four and the Birmingham Six, was banned under the same legislation used in the late 1980s to stop the broadcast of direct interviews with members of Sinn ...
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