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Gerry Conlon, who was wrongly convicted over 1974 Guildford pub bombings and spent 15 years in jail, has died aged 60 in west Belfast.
The Guildford Four – Gerry Conlon, Paul Hill, Carole Richardson and Paddy Armstrong – faced a life sentence in 1975 for bombing of two pubs in the south England town which killed four soldiers and one civilian while wounding 65.
Mr Conlon’s father, Giuseppe, was also jailed later in 1974. He had died while being in prison five years later.
Giuseppe was imprisoned as part of a discredited investigation into a supposed bomb making family – the Maguire Seven.
Giuseppe had one lung and emphysema, and had just undergone chemotherapy.
Mr Conlon and the rest of the Guildford Four members had to wrongly serve 15 years of imprisonment before their convictions were overturned in 1989 and they were freed.
Mr Conlon’s mother Sarah, a tireless campaigner for their freedom, had also died back in 2008, aged 82.
In 2005, sixteen years after their release, the then Prime Minister Tony Blair issued a public apology to the Guildford Four and the Maguire Seven for the miscarriages of justice they had suffered.
Conlon’s family paid tribute to the legend for his “love, intelligence and wit”.
In a family statement issued on Saturday, Mr Conlon’s lawyer Gareth Peirce has said: “This morning we lost our Gerry.
“He brought life, love, intelligence, wit and strength to our family through its darkest hours.
“He helped us to survive what we were not meant to survive.
“We recognise that what he achieved by fighting for justice for us had a far, far greater importance – it forced the world’s closed eyes to be opened to injustice; it forced unimaginable wickedness to be acknowledged; we believe it changed the course of history.
“We thank him for his life and we thank all his many friends for their love.”
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I am from Vancouver,canada and I heard on the CBC news last night about the death of Gerry Conlon.I believe there are still a lot of Republican Political Prisoners in prison.I always supported the Irish Struggle for freedom from British Imperialism.Im sure the fight will continue until Northern Ireland gets its freedom.Its good that Sinn Fein done good in the recent elections.
The people in Cuba are fighting the American gov. to get Guantanamo freed from yankee control.The Palestinian People are putting up a good fight against Israeli aparthecomment_ID.It is good that Irish and Palestinian Political Prisoners support each other.All people in the world need to support these important struggles.