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Mar 6, 2020 · 6 March 2020 | 6:35 am. Guildford Four: how the innocent were framed and the truth buried. Gerry Conlon leaving the Old Bailey. On October 5, 1974 two public houses in Guildford, Surrey were bombed by the IRA without warning causing five deaths and over 60 injuries of varying severity.
Both groups' convictions were eventually declared "unsafe and unsatisfactory" and reversed in 1989 and 1991, respectively, after they had served up to 15 to 16 years in prison. Along with the Guildford Four and Maguire Seven, a number of other people faced charges relating to the bombings, six of them charged with murder, but these charges were ...
Jun 23, 2023 · The Guildford Four are universally acknowledged to be victims of one of the most serious miscarriages of justice and for which they spent 15 years in prison. The Coroner also rejected an Article 2 Inquest.
Oct 20, 2019 · It felt like a Hollywood moment. Minutes earlier, the four had been cleared of their wrongful conviction for the Guildford and Woolwich pub bombings. After 15 years, justice had finally been...
- Chas Newkey-Burden
Aug 15, 2023 · What a moment that was in 1989, when the Guildford Four, of which Conlon was the most conspicuous and articulate member, had their second appeal over their convictions for the 1974 pub bombings...
- Ann Marie Hourihane
Jun 30, 2021 · PA. The wrongly-convicted Guildford Four served 15 years in jail. Investigative journalist Ros Franey, who exposed the wrongful convictions in the 1980s, said: "It's simply not true to say...
Oct 4, 2014 · 22 October 1975 - Paul Hill, Gerry Conlon, Patrick Armstrong and Carole Richardson - the Guildford Four - jailed for life at the Old Bailey. 19 October 1989 - After years of campaigning, the...