Guildford Four Release: Historic Injustice Overturned

Guildford Four Release: Historic Injustice Overturned - Archive Documentary (1989)

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7 ай бұрын

On 19 October 1989, the Guildford Four were released after 15 years of wrongful imprisonment. Gerard Patrick "Gerry" Conlon, Paul Michael Hill, Patrick Joseph "Paddy" Armstrong, and Carole Richardson were arrested and charged with terror-related offences following the Guildford pub bombings of 5 October 1974 and the Woolwich pub bombing of 7 November 1974. Under intense coercion at the hands of the Surrey police - ranging from intimidation, threats against family members, and torture - the four made false confessions to the bombings. Convicted and given life sentences, the judge informed them that, had they been charged with treason, they would have been hanged. It would take 15 years and the steadfast campaigning by family members of the Guildford Four to see their convictions overturned. Using raw footage from the day, including interviews with Gerry Conlon, his relatives, and the family of Paddy Hill, this special documentary recounts the dramatic and emotional events of the day the Guildford Four were released.
For a small number of high profile cases related to the ongoing Troubles in Northern Ireland, the release of the Guildford Four acted as a watershed moment. The Maguire Seven, relatives of Gerry Conlon who were jailed on separate charges, also had their convictions overturned - though by that time all had served their full sentences or, in the case of Gerry Conlon's father, Giuseppe Conlon, died in prison. The Birmingham Six, another high profile group jailed under similar circumstances following the Provisional IRA's bombings of two pubs in Birmingham in 1974, were released less than 18 months after the Guildford Four.
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@alimay1011 5 ай бұрын

And now the British judiciary are dealing out injustice to Julian Assange - his 5th Christmas in Belmarsh, no charges, an innocent man held in solitary confinement for almost 5 years. Free Assange

@patrickjosephhenderson4123 3 ай бұрын

It was a terrible time for the Irish people living in England we were all suspect to the police who took their anger out on us just for being Irish

@sandro19691000 12 күн бұрын

Yeah, many people pay the price for the ones who are able to perpetrate horrible acts, it must be sad.🇮🇪❤

@danielmoran9902 7 ай бұрын

Fitted up by British police and every one of the scumbags got away with it.

@davidspink9147 Ай бұрын

Yeah an the ira stayed quiet, happily let them do the time.

@slartybobfoster2273 Ай бұрын

Hey admitted to carrying out the attack ye fud

@edwardodonnell6857 4 ай бұрын

She was a fine lady who loved supported her husband and son it was a awful miscarriage of justice the hatred Gerry and Guiseppi faced in prison was terrible.Guiseppi died in custody a harmless sick man Gerry’s life was ruined he turned to drugs alcohol never re built his life..

@tonywilliams7152 4 ай бұрын

How could he? 15 years being locked up for something so horrific, when you didnt do it. The whole world hates you. Theres no escape from the hate. The best years of his life spent in a box. Its brutal. His fathers life taken by it. The guilt of that alone would have been too much. I wouldnt have made it as far as he did. Id probably have topped myself. Poor man.

@jacquiewalton1355 Ай бұрын

@@tonywilliams7152 Under the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act, all investigations into cases relating to the Troubles are to end on May 1, 2024 including civil cases and inquests which have not reached their findings stage. The Act offers a limited form of immunity from prosecution for such offences for those who co-operate with a new body aimed at truth recovery.

@MarieCassidy-zd8sc 27 күн бұрын

He was such a cutie

@paulgreen1821 6 ай бұрын

Really weird watching this. I bunked off school that day to see them get out aged 14. That is me shouting ‘you tell them Gerry’ when he gives his speech in front of the media. Sadly he is no longer with us. Thankfully the Birmingham Six were released 17 months later but it took until 1997 for the Carl Bridgewater stitch up to be exposed.

@charlesduggan7600 6 ай бұрын

my Dad told me they were set up, no one would question that an irish man was not guilty

@paulgreen1821 6 ай бұрын

@@charlesduggan7600Certainly in the mid 70s it was a case of any Sean, Mick or Barry will do. It is worth pointing out one of the Guildford Four, Carole Richardson, was actually English and had zero connection with Ireland other than the fact her boyfriend was Paddy Armstrong. In fact eight people were initially charged with the Guildford bombings, including a Northern Irish Protestant. He and the other three who eventually had their charges dropped only escaped the same fate as the Guildford Four because they didn’t sign false confessions.

@jameslarkin8494 6 ай бұрын

Justice was done, only after the British Establishment got their pound of flesh on innocent people. Being Irish means your guilty was the war cry at the time..The authorities knew they never done it. RIP Gerry Conlon..Apples will grow on a Lilac tree first, before the Brits would admit they were wrong.. Carole Richardson RIP..

@liamkeane9159 6 ай бұрын

Been Irish in London in 70s and 80s 90s was a fucking disaster

@gregconway736 3 ай бұрын

Why go there then? Oh thats right Ireland was and still is a failed state with your industrial schools.

@johnking5174 24 күн бұрын

You only have to go back to the 1972 "Widgery Tribunal" into the events of Bloody Sunday 30th January 1972 in Derry, and see how "British justice" was done, when that report cleared all of the army and put the blame on to the civil rights. No surprise that British justice was so wrong in this case.

@CuriouslyInteresting 20 күн бұрын

My heart goes out to Gerry's mum. She seemed like an absolute star. An to loose her husband the way she did aswell as dealing with Gerry's wrongful conviction and incarceration for all them years. If theres a heaven shes in it

@bernadettemclaughlin5411 7 ай бұрын

Rip gerry

@giovannibarbieri6241 29 күн бұрын

I've learnt about this story by watching the extraordinary Jimmy Sheridan movie when was at the big screen if not wrong mid 90s, I recall after having watched that film that I felt so sad about the story and in particular I felt and still feeling emotional about the realtionship between father and son or at least how it has been described and told by Jymmy Sheridan, unfortunately this 'terrible ''mistakes'' are still happening, also in my country as anywhere, not to mention wrong dead penalties.... to be honest nothing can pay you back for the wasted time that you have rot in a jail nothing can pay back for the pain of having seeing your father dying in front of you as an innocent man locked up in 4 walls, there's no money that can relieve that pain. those who have committed this terrible crime will pay because divine justice is the only one that truly reapairs everything, this for those who believe as Giuseppe and as many more

@josemunguia1883 Ай бұрын

what a awful injustice

@HiredGun-el4qh Ай бұрын

Disgusting! Shame On You Britain for the Cruelty you have Done!!! 😢

@daveThe3rd20 3 ай бұрын

Is that Jeremy Corbyn? If so, what a guy!

@scotoftheanarchic.7903 3 ай бұрын

Ye it is he...

@-xirx- 3 ай бұрын

Once again on the right side of history. He got shafted by the establishment too.

@adavada5394 5 ай бұрын

Mi magyarok abszolút átéreztük az Apám nevében filmet..hiszen mi magunk is ártatlanul lettünk szétdarabolva egymástól elválasztva és idegen rabigába kényszerítve...üdvözlet Erdélyből.

@user-ko2my4kd5i 6 ай бұрын

It was shocking Inercent people getting treat like dogs and beat bye police

@RustyShakleford1 7 ай бұрын

18:00 he looks like frodo after making it through the gates of mordor

@johnbowman1076 4 ай бұрын

Time to grow up, you jerk.

@icanfly2245 Күн бұрын

Bisides the point but did they get compensation?

@-xirx- 3 ай бұрын

Jeremy Corbyn once again on the right side of history. We were so close to real change in number 10 with him

@simongills2051 7 күн бұрын

I never had any ill feeling towards Irish people nor did i know anyone else back then. And it never stopped the movement of Irish into England. I just was into music and having fun with anyone who i crossed paths with. Who cared if you were ruled from Dublin or London? They were as incompetent and out of touch as each other. Nobody gave a toss and was hyped up by the IRA and irish community living abroad.

@elizaleroux9173 3 ай бұрын

Was the real guys ever caught?

@-xirx- 3 ай бұрын

They were caught for something else and admitted it to the police but were ignored.

@13Amazons 6 күн бұрын

Balcomb street gang. One of the, bombmaker I think, confessed at his trial. It was ignored. They were released after the Good Friday Agreement.

@bigbadredsox 2 ай бұрын

British justice at it's finest.

@kieransavage100 24 күн бұрын

A tad on the late side….

@martincook318 22 күн бұрын

This is one of the Reasons why I do not Support the Death Penalty in case there is a Miscarriage of Justice and what Made Me a lifelong Abolishonest was Derek Bentley and look how long that tuck into Clearing his Name 45 year's