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  Guildford Four Online Encyclopedia Article About Guildford Four
Three men and a woman who were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in England in 1975 for the bombing of two Guildford public houses in which seven people died, as well as for a bombing in Woolwich.
The four were freed in 1989 after the Court of Appeal quashed their convictions.
Three of the policemen involved in the original case were subsequently prosecuted for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, but were acquitted in 1993.
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  The Best and Worst Places to Live in Britain
Guildford is the county town of Surrey, as well as being the administrative headquarters of the South East England region.
It numbers among its former pupils four Bishops, an Archbishop of Canterbury, an Admiral of the Fleet, an Air Chief Marshal, a President of the Royal College of Surgeons and a Prime Minister of New Zealand.
P.G. Wodehouse was born in Guildford in 1881.
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  Guildford
Guildford is the county town of Surrey, England as well as being one of Surrey's 11 boroughs.
The subsequently arrested suspects, to become known as the Guildford Four[?], were convicted and sentenced to prison.
In 2002, Guildford's application to be granted the status of a city was unsuccessful, losing out to Preston, the only English town being formally recognised as a city as part of the Queen's Golden Jubilee celebrations.
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 Guildford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Guildford is the county town of Surrey, England, as well as the seat for the borough of Guildford and the administrative headquarters of the South East England region.
Guildford Cathedral is adjacent to the university's main campus and the Royal Surrey County Hospital is nearby.
Guildford is home to the Guildford Flames of the English Premier Ice Hockey League, Guildford United of the Combined Counties Football League, Guildford International of the National Volleyball League and the Guildford Heat of the British Basketball League.
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 Guildford pub bombing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Paul Craig, a 22 year old plasterer and four off-duty teenage soldiers of the Scots Guards and the Women's Royal Army Corps were killed in the blast.
A similar bomb to those used in Guildford, with the addition of shrapnel, was thrown into the Kings Arms pub in Woolwich on 7 November 1974.
During the trial of the Balcombe Street gang in February 1977 the four IRA men instructed their lawyers to "draw attention to the fact that four totally innocent people were serving massive sentences" for three bombings in Woolwich and Guildford.
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 [Guildford Four] | [All the best Guildford Four resources at informationhunting.com]   (Site not responding. Last check: )
birmingham six, maguire seven, guildford fourthe guildford four were a group of people (paul hill, gerry conlon, patrick 'paddy' armstrong and carole richardson), who were wrongly convicted in the united kingdom in october 1975 for the provisional ira's guildford pub bombing...
The Guildford Four were a group of people (Paul Hill, Gerry Conlon, Patrick 'Paddy' Armstrong and Carole Richardson), who were wrongly convicted in the United Kingdom in October 1975 for the Provisional IRA's Guildford pub bombing — which killed five people and injured sixty-five more — and imprisoned for over 15 years.
The Guildford Four tried to make an appeal under Section 17 of the Criminal Appeal Act 1968 (later repealed), but were unsuccessful and, in 1987 the Home Office issued a memorandum, recognizing that it was unlikely the Four were terrorists but that this would not be sufficient evidence for appeal.
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 Guildford Four - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Guildford Four were Paul Hill, Gerry Conlon, Patrick (Paddy) Armstrong and Carole Richardson, who were wrongly convicted in the United Kingdom in October 1975 for the Provisional IRA's Guildford pub bombing which killed five and injured over one hundred people.
At their trial the Guildford Four claimed they had been tortured by police until they signed a confession.
The Four tried to make an appeal under Section 17 of Criminal Appeal Act 1968 (later repealed) but were unsuccessful and, in 1987, the Home Office issued a memorandum recognizing that it was unlikely that the Four were terrorists but that this would not be sufficient evidence for appeal.
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 injusticebusters 2001 > > The Guildford Four: now 15 years ago!
Two of the so-called Guildford Four say they are still waiting for justice ten years after being cleared of the 1974 English pub bombing which killed five people.
The Guildford Four were freed by the Court of Appeal along with Carole Richardson and Patrick Armstrong, after each serving 15 years in prison.
Labour MP John McDonnell, who was involved in the campaign for the release of the Guildford Four is supporting their call for changes to the compensation system.
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The cases of Judith Ward, the Guildford Four, the Birmingham Six and the Macguire Seven are the archetypal miscarriages of justice; between them they reveal falsified and concealed evidence, police brutality, untrustworthy forensic evidence, and forged confessions.
Of the various cases, that of the Guildford Four is the most contentious, partly because of the youth of the defendants (the youngest, at 17, still legally a minor), and the absence of any solid evidence outside of their confessions.
The case of the Guildford four is not the only one at which Lawton and Roskill applied this process, and were later criticised by the House of Lords.
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 Washingtonpost.com: Northern Ireland Special Report
Three of the "Guildford Four," named after the town where one of the bombings occurred, were released immediately.
The campaign to release the four had been spearheaded by a group of prominent Britons, including Cardinal Basil Hume, the Catholic archbishop of Westminster; Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie; two former home secretaries, and several retired senior jurists.
The Guildford Four were convicted in an atmosphere of public outrage after a 1974 bombing wave by the IRA, which sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland by "bringing the war home" to England.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Guildford
Guildford Four Three men and a woman of Irish extraction convicted in an English court of terrorist bombings in Guildford and Woolwich, s England, in 1975.
The county seat of Surrey, Guildford is a market and residential commuter town of London.
Avaya opens high tech HQ in Guildford for its UK and Ireland operations; Cabling the length of the M1 motorway connects HQ using next generation communications.
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 INNOCENT - Fighting miscarriages of justice
John Wadham, the director of Liberty, added: "The Guildford Four were the first people detained under the prevention of terrorism act and it is disappointing that this legislation remains in place, despite the peace process and the government's commitment in opposition not to renew it.
The Guildford Four, who launched this legislative ferment, may be forgiven for still feeling let down and left behind.
Twenty-five years after four young people were wrongfully convicted of the Guildford pub bombings in 1974, Tony Blair has become the first person in authority to apologise for the miscarriage of justice.
www.innocent.org.uk /cases/guildford4   (1896 words)

  
 UNHCR - Great Britain (Northern Ireland): Information on the ruling of the Court of Appeal and whether redress was ...
UNHCR - Great Britain (Northern Ireland): Information on the ruling of the Court of Appeal and whether redress was offered in the case of the Guildford Four.
In October 1989, the convictions of the Guildford Four on terrorist offenses were quashed by the British Court of Appeal (Time 30 October 1989, 61).
There is no information currently available to the IRBDC on whether the Guildford Four were offered any redress for time served in prison.
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 SAOIRSE32 :: Guildford Four :: January :: 2005
A member of the Guildford Four will meet Bertie Ahern today in an attempt to persuade the British government to apologise publicly for jailing him and his father.
Two groups of people known as the Guildford Four and the Maguire Seven, were later jailed in connection with the attack and other bombings in Woolwich, south east London.
In October 1989 the Court of Appeal quashed the sentences of the Guildford Four after doubts were raised about the police evidence.
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 Gerry Conlon and the Guantanamo Four
Indeed, the Guantanamo four, under constant surveillance, and virtual prisoners in their own nation, are treated as if they had been tried and convicted of crimes they have not even been publicly accused of in any court of law.
Even the Guildford four, who were falsely convicted, were at least provided over time with the means and ability to eventually prove their innocence.
While falsified evidence existed and was presented in the prosecution of the Guildford four, indeed no such evidence of any kind has emerged outside of the apparent confessions and claims made by those under torture that have no means of being corroborated.
www.gnn.tv /blogs/3981/Gerry_Conlon_and_the_Guantanamo_Four?r=1   (568 words)

  
 Guildford Four - TheBestLinks.com - Academy Award, British, Death penalty, Murder, ...
Guildford Four, Academy Award, British, Death penalty, Murder, Northern Ireland...
The Guildford Four were four people from Northern Ireland who were wrongly convicted in the United Kingdom in 1975 for the Provisional IRA's Guildford pub bombing which killed five and injured hundreds people, despite Joe McAndrew, one of the actual terrorist bombers, subsequently admitting to the bombing.
After they were convicted of murder and recieved the mandatory sentence of life imprisonment, the judge expressed regret the four had not been charged with treason, which then still had a mandatory death penalty.
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 Definition of Guildford
Guildford is the county town of Surrey, England, as well as being the seat for the borough of Guildford and the administrative headquarters of the South East England region.
There are two railway stations (Guildford main line station, near the Friary Centre, and London Road Guildford) which provide a convenient link to London Waterloo for commuters, and the main line station also connects to Portsmouth, Reading, Epsom and Gatwick airport.
Guildford is also the home of the famous games company Lionhead Studios.
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 Gerry Conlon and the Guantanamo Four
Indeed, the Guantanamo four, under constant surveillance, and virtual prisoners in their own nation, are treated as if they had been tried and convicted of crimes they have not even been publicly accused of in any court of law.
Even the Guildford four, who were falsely convicted, were at least provided over time with the means and ability to eventually prove their innocence.
While falsified evidence existed and was presented in the prosecution of the Guildford four, indeed no such evidence of any kind has emerged outside of the apparent confessions and claims made by those under torture that have no means of being corroborated.
www.guerrillanews.com /blogs/3981/Gerry_Conlon_and_the_Guantanamo_Four?r=4   (568 words)

  
 What In the Name of the Father Teaches About False Confessions
The four people, known as the Guildford Four, were imprisoned for fifteen years before being exonerated and released on October 22, 1989.
Consistent with the lack of evidence against the four defendants is Gerry's observation that as a paramilitary organization, the IRA enforced strict discipline on its members.
The Guildford Four's convictions were all tied in together by the same alleged evidence, so if Gerry Conlon was innocent, it meant they all were.
www.justicedenied.org /inthenameofthefather.htm   (3183 words)

  
 BBC ON THIS DAY | 19 | 1989: Guildford Four released after 15 years
The Guildford Four have had their convictions quashed by the Court of Appeal following an extensive inquiry into the original police investigation.
The confession of Patrick Armstrong was central to the investigation and the inquiry concluded the notes taken were not written up immediately and officers may have colluded in the wording of the statements.
The Guildford Four - as they were dubbed - were jailed for life in 1975 for bombing pubs in Guildford.
news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/19/newsid_2490000/2490039.stm   (380 words)

  
 Blair 'sorry' over Guildford Four
TONY BLAIR has taken the unusual step of apologising to one of the Guildford Four, whose convictions for IRA bomb attacks in England were quashed in 1989.
A spokesman said: "He was responding to correspondence that she sent to him and it was a lengthy letter." Details of the apology are given tonight in a BBC Northern Ireland television documentary.
The Guildford Four spent 15 years in jail before their convictions were overturned by the Appeal Court in 1989.
www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/2000/06/06/nguil06.html   (273 words)

  
 What In the Name of the Father Teaches About False Confessions
The four people, known as the Guildford Four, were imprisoned for fifteen years before being exonerated and released on October 22, 1989.
A fifth person interrogated about the Guildford bombings, Brian Anderson, later said he felt he was at his breaking point when his interrogator was called away to talk on the telephone.
The Guildford Four's convictions were all tied in together by the same alleged evidence, so if Gerry Conlon was innocent, it meant they all were.
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 Guildford is the county town of Surrey England...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Guildford is the county town of Surrey England...
"Guildford" is the county town of Surrey, England, as well as being seat for the borough of Guildford.
Statue of Archbishop George Abbot in Guildford High St In the 21st century Guildford is a typical modern English town, with shopping malls with the standard national and international shops present.
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 Community -> Britain says sorry for Gilford 4 & Maguire 7
Four of them -- the so-called "Guildford Four" -- achieved international fame when their wrongful 15-year jailing was dramatized in the 1993 film "In The Name Of The Father."
The Guildford Four and Maguire Seven were blamed for 1974 bombs in bars in the southern towns of Guildford and Woolwich.
Appeal courts overturned the convictions of the four in 1989, and the seven in 1991, amid allegations of falsified evidence and confessions obtained under coercion.
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 Guildford
In 1995 a Chamber was discovered in Guildford High Street which is widely to believed to be the remains of a 12th Century Synagogue.
Guildford was made a diocese in 1927, and Guildford Cathedral was consecrated in 1961.
The subsequently arrested suspects, who became known as the Guildford Four, were convicted and sentenced to long prison sentences.
www.lovemytown.co.uk /CityProfiles/Guildford.htm   (345 words)

  
 Understanding Current Events
This movie is based on the true story of the Guildford four, a group of Irish people jailed for the 1974 bombing of a pub in Guildford, a small town about 30 miles south of London.
All four of the prisoners are sentenced to obscene jail terms.
In an appeals court, Gareth proves that the London police knew that someone else had bombed the Guildford Pub, that the inspector had withheld crucial evidence proving their innocence, and had tortured the prisoners into signing a confession.
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 Guildford
Guildford ist eine County-Stadt in Surrey, England, und sowohl zentraler Verwaltungssitz für Region Südostengland als auch Sitz der Stadtgemeinde Guildford.
Um 1040 kehrte er nach England zurück, wo er in Guildford angetroffen und von den Truppen des Grafen (Earl) Godwin verhaftet und an Harold Harefoots Männer ausgeliefert wurde.
Guildford ist die Heimatstadt der University of Surrey.
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