LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Guildford Four release

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

17 Oct 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:01:56

Description

Report and interview with Sarah Conlon, mother of Gerard Conlon and wife of Giuseppe Conlon- says she knew they were innocent; also interviews with Paul Foot, Daily Mirror journalist and campaigner and Chris Mullin MP who wants the Birmingham Six freed. Follows news the Guildford Four jailed for two IRA pub bombings in 1974 are to be set free.The Director of Public Prosecutions is expected to tell an Old Bailey judge on Thursday it would be wrong to seek to sustain the convictions which were based only on false confessions. Male reporter not identified.

Contributors

Paul Foot; Chris Mullin; Sarah Conlon

Keywords

Terrorism; IRA; Policing practice; Courts; Imprisonment; Legal decisions; Prisoners; Criminal justice system; Appeals; DPP; Miscarriages of justice; Guildford Four; Carole Richardson; Birmingham Six; Gerard Conlon; Giuseppe Conlon

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