Guildford Four Release: Historic Injustice Overturned - Archive Documentary (1989)
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- 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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The police officers who framed these people were never brought to justice. A disgrace.
I'm English, and it makes me fume to see how the Irish was treated. The police and politicians are a fucking disgrace.
English people hate injustice just as much as anyone else, it's the English police, judiciary and politicians who are a fucking disgrace. Not the decent English people.
Looks my mum irish she grew up in the troubles and the trouble was just hell for everyone it was basically our vietnam. The English came in the help because of the Catholic and protestant problems was getting pit of hand. And it was bad in the beginning but not as bad as what was too come in 1972. After the events of bloody sunday young boys got anger and hatred in there hearts for the English and the ira git hundreds of young boys joining them. Within a year the ira start bombings in England and shooting police and then the guildford bombing happen and people were fuming so the police basically found the first young lads who had recently been to England and made an example out of them. It was hell for everyone no side can really be blamed so much blood and lives lost
and then again your are preaching to other countries what democracy is 😂😂😂😂😂
weird no one ever complains about a police escort for prisoners ( even innocent ones ) - yet go mental when its that Taylor Swift bloke
Yeah, bro, you're absolutely right. We know there are wonderful people amongst the Britons.
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
On orders from America
@@davidbrennan3613 as a good USA puppet.
The Guildford Four were left to rot in prison for 15 years - and then the officers who framed them were let off the hook. Disgusting injustice.
I’m a free man and I’m going out the front door.
With Gerry......
I remember this moment...I also just watched the movie, "In The Name Of The Father." I made me come here just to watch these clips again ....such injustice!!
Don't give me the north of Ireland I'll have a bad trip lol
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..
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.
@@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.
He was such a cutie
@@MarieCassidy-zd8sc Hello .. May 1st you say? Now this time as passed, Please could you tell me the outcome of this Marie ? Thank you & God bless you in Abundance ❤🧎🏻🧎🏿🙏🏼🧎🏼😇🙏🏿🧎🧎🏻➕
@Mikey-mu1gj The outcome of ??????
Disgusting! Shame On You Britain for the Cruelty you have Done!!! 😢
People went after George dixon - protected from on high by the prince of darkness himself :/
Rest in peace Gerry the first casualty of war is innocence.
wow Gerry is has a heart still showing empathy to the poor people that lost love ones , as a london born irish kid in 1990s this day was huge
His 1st thoughts on freedom were for his "Da" & the Mguires & Birmingham 6 - lovely bloke
Fitted up by British police and every one of the scumbags got away with it.
Yeah an the ira stayed quiet, happily let them do the time.
The IRA admitted to carrying out the attack ye fud
@@davidspink9147 It was the Provos. Learn the difference and then comment.
@@slartybobfoster2273 The IRA wouldn't allow anyone like Gerry and the other 3 join their cause, Gerry and the other 3 were the type that would have drawn the police to the IRA, And Gerry was beaten and forced to sign a confession, I'd hate to see you on a jury.
@@i.marr.6688 What I meant was that the IRA admitted carrying out the attacks, specifically the Balcombe street gang. Though I appreciate that wasn't clear in that comment. That was a typo, should have said They* (The IRA) and not implying Gerry and the rest.
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..His book called "Proved Innocent" was a great read,easy reading,and i walked every step of the way with Gerry..
Look at how Corbyn is treated now its disgraceful
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.
my Dad told me they were set up, no one would question that an irish man was not guilty
@@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.
I got busted by the drug squad 2 days after this & i had every newspaper blu tacked to the wall . " B*STARD" Was my fave headline , refering to George Dixon who witheld evidence from the defence . Old bill never found F*** all either :D
@@paulgreen1821 Balcombe street gang admitted to the bombings at Guildford & woolwich but the police the crown the govt all ignored the evidence which was substantial , they had held a family hostage pretty much taking up all the news programs at that time . They had detonator evidence wiring the whole thing - it was them 100 % they got let out of jail in 1999 under the peace agreement ,o ne is now a serving Irish MP with Sin Fein = a legitimate political party
and Broadwater farm
Been Irish in London in 70s and 80s 90s was a fucking disaster
Why go there then? Oh thats right Ireland was and still is a failed state with your industrial schools.
Being Irish in London any time was a fkg disaster. In my parents dsy there were advertisments for house rentals in London which openly said 'No dogs, no Irish'. Such racism, on top of eight centuries of unreleived misery. Nobody does racism like the British.
@@erinundra My mother told me about that when it came to renting a house it would say "No Dogs No Irish " I was only a kid and i remember thinking that can't be right, it was only when I got older did I realise how true it was.
being a black man at that time was worse
@@erinundra ihad no relations in London that never had any problems. Well apart from the odd cheeky comment from customs at airport. Keep head down, work hard, use common sense and 99% time it was ok.
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
WHY WERE THE POLICE WHO FITTED THESE PEOPLE UP NOT SENT TO PRISON FOR WHAT THEY DID....IT'S A DAMMING INDICTMENT ON OUR COUNTRY 😢😢
Politics
@nonameblues no cover up, .
Respectfully, that’s a stupid question
“Why didn’t the corrupt establishment get brought to justice for its corruption”
@harryfoster-ov7js stupid nothing the police told lies, fitted up innocent people and walked away scot free....if you or myself had done this we would be locked up for perjury. So there is an honest answer to you silly police loving post, oh I bet you are a cop, or knows someone who is the dirty rotten B######, sent innocent people to jail, and in one case Josepi to his death for what, nothing, because our famous police force could not capture the real villains as they have done in so many cases over the years corupt my back end , gangsters in uniforms backed up by horrible old rats in suits....so there you are..!!!!!.
It's the same in every country, the powerful protect themselves.
Gerry and the rest came out the front door, while the RATS sneeked out the back....😮
Just learning about this terrible injustice once again committed by the British so I can teach my homeschooled children about it. Im Palestinian and we share a close bond with the Irish and watching my family go through the same thing right now. Rip Giuseppe Conlon and Gerry
Thank you, and we stand with you also 💔💐
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.
I shed tears of pure joy seeing this day these walk free through the front door to speak up , 1 love government snides wanted them to slip out the back silenced, so beautiful to see these finally free never no justice but sure with you all peaceful lives and happiness
The British Police and British Government even locked up an innocent 14 year old Patrick Maguire Jr. Three British police officers were charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, but each was found not guilty. Took until 2005 for Tony Blair who apologised to the families of the 11 people imprisoned for the bombings in Guildford and Woolwich and those related to those who were still alive. He said, in part, "I am very sorry that they were subject to such an ordeal and injustice... they deserve to be completely and publicly exonerated.
Mi magyarok abszolút átéreztük az Apám nevében filmet..hiszen mi magunk is ártatlanul lettünk szétdarabolva egymástól elválasztva és idegen rabigába kényszerítve...üdvözlet Erdélyből.
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
Yeah, many people pay the price for the ones who are able to perpetrate horrible acts, it must be sad.🇮🇪❤
and black people too, and i should know being mixed race
Rest in peace Paddy Hill and Gerry Conlon ❤
Jeremy Corbyn has always been a righteous man.
Whoever is the lady in green, she's hugely loved by Gerry. It's wonderful when he lifts her when hugging themselves❤❤❤❤❤❤
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
There’s interviews of the four people on a Chanel called the trouble land….it only been on a for few days
If one person was wrongly convicted, then another got away with murder.
To date not one conviction against anyone in the uk says it all
And some people still have blind faith in the law!
Rip gerry
Corrupt establishment corrupt police are a disgrace .
We love you gerry always treasured and remembered xx ❤❤❤❤
This case and the Birmingham six was a major factor in the decision not to re-instate capital punishment in the UK. I think the home secretary Michael Howard and the conservative government at the time were considering a vote on the re,-in-statement of capital punishment. But these two cases certainly changed that. Michael Howard himself has gone on record to say he would not have been comfortable supporting a bill.to reintroduce the death penalty after these men had their sentences quashed, whereas before he was in favour of capital punishment being reinstated especially after the Brighton bombing of the Tory party conference.
Gerry Patrick conlon been reading his books and I love the movie in the name of the father gerry Patrick Armstrong and Carol Richardson and Paul hill and Patrick gerry I thank god justice was done for quipped gerrys father and justice was done the court ov appeal quashed it and the Guildford four served 15 years for rip gerry Patrick conlon Paull Hill and Carol Richardson ❤❤
This is absolutely disgusting. He has been through so much hell and suffering and pain.
I wish someone had made a movie about the Maguire family and Judith Ward, as good as In the Name of The Father.
British justice at it's finest.
A tad on the late side….
British justice. As shite today as its ever been
A government can be be callous every day of the week,15 years was a long time innocent..
I was 10 watching the injustice of the brits in my country
Was there really any need to produce four innocent people to a court in a heavily armoured prison wagon to free them from an unjust sentence,deep shame on us
what a awful injustice
15 years for noting god bless them I was absolutely heartbroken and devastated I played the Guildford four gerrys conlons lawyer did a amaziing work a note was not shown to the judge it sa not to be shown to the defence gerry Patrick conlon was activist and a gud man and I pray to God his father got the justice and seri g gerry I have cried tears ov happiness❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
We should also remember that had this country had the death penalty, there’s a good chance this release would not have been possible. Just saying.
Is that Jeremy Corbyn? If so, what a guy!
Ye it is he...
Once again on the right side of history. He got shafted by the establishment too.
Gareth pierce was gerrys lawyer who showed the note at the trial in 19 89 lovely lady x and after gerry got the freedom he said I'm going out the front door a free man and Paul hill said I'm going the same way through the front door like gerry x
What a lady mrs conlon was dignified strong women rest in peace 🙏
Eres un ejemplo de fuerza y coraje gerry descansa en paz junto con Giuseppe , me inspiras a luchar yo tambn estoy viviendo una injusticia estuve preso unos dias por un delito que cometió otro compañero de trabajo y al dia de hoy estoy suspendido de mi trabajo injustamente
Jeremy Corbyn once again on the right side of history
Jeremy Corbyn once again on the right side of history.
We were so close to real change in number 10 with him
that's why they hate him, he can't be bought
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.
It was shocking Inercent people getting treat like dogs and beat bye police
RIP Gerry Conlon!
England is were I was born but Canada raised me and I`m happy I never had to put up with UK polotics.
And Gerry was Right wasnt he? We did find out.
20:54
Yes get this man a BEER! I've known this story since I was a kid through the amazing movie based on Conlon's life. I'm happy he got out
I'm not crying I'm just cutting onions
And all for nothing
Truth alwas comes out in a dirtey was. Ireland
500.000 k he got thats disgusting for 15 years gone. Never even arrested the officers they got off Scott free.
They would have arrested the Jackson five back then.
Poor gerry he suffered in life after this watching his die for something he didn't do and the others suffered
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Rip sir gerry beautiful innocent man now rest and be free , sad sad case this shipot government should never never forget
Brits out of Ireland 🇮🇪
He looked really handsome when hewas first released
Bit of a trip seeing a young Jeremy Corbyn in the beginning.
British justice how can anybody be held in contempt in of British court after this
How many sisters did Gerry Conlon have?
18:00 he looks like frodo after making it through the gates of mordor
Time to grow up, you jerk.
Let’s not forget the IRA planted bombs without remorse, still they have not come out to name those guilty
Let's not forget the BRITISH are responsible for more blood spilled than all other countries put together, the British are responsible for 100's of millions of deaths worldwide, the British created the IRA
@@jackthelad15yes. Hello from the colony 🦘. My convict ancestors were in the old Bailey. The British have been brutal to so many. (And planted many bombs they blamed others for )
Not true. During the trial of the "Balcombe Street Gang" the four IRA members admitted to the bombings and instructed their lawyers to draw attention to the fact that the Guildford 4 were innocent. They were ignored and have never been charged with the bombings.
Definitely not Irish (jail changed),one weird guy
Was the real guys ever caught?
They were caught for something else and admitted it to the police but were ignored.
Balcomb street gang. One of the, bombmaker I think, confessed at his trial. It was ignored. They were released after the Good Friday Agreement.
The real criminals went on to have long careers in the British police and never served a day in jail for their crimes.
UNIFY IRELAND!!!!
Free Luke Mitchell
Weres his mum
They should have never been released
They're innocent. They should never have been arrested, you mean.
@OscarMcHattan no they should never have been released. Innocent? Are you having a laugh?
@DeeLee-p8c Then do you have any evidence that they're guilty? Enlighten me. Until then, I will remain convinced that they are innocent.
@OscarMcHattan Do you?
@DeeLee-p8c Why, in fact, I do.
1. There was no evidence proving the Guildford Four were guilty in the first place - no forensic evidence, no eyewitnesses, no equipment, nothing.
2. They were never members of the IRA.
3. The Balcombe Street ASU, an actual IRA gang, were arrested in 1977, and the Balcombe Street ASU admitted that the Guildford Four were innocent and that they, the Balcombe Street ASU, were the actual perpetrators. This was ignored by the system.
4. The forensic tests used on the Guildford Four were inaccurate and didn't work.
5. The Guildford Four's supposed confessions had only been made after police brutality and didn't make sense.
6. The Guildford Four had alibis proving they were elsewhere at the time - which was ignored at the trial
Besides, the burden of proof lies on the person who says someone is guilty. So, can you please explain to me why you think they are guilty? Thanks.
#FreeLucyLetby
😂😂😂😂
@@kevphillips02 It's not a joke you idiot. Another miscarriage of justice.
Why
Perhaps she can live with you in your spare room, babysitting when you want a night out
@@Alanhock75 Confusing legal facts with objective facts are we?
I got raided 2 days after this by the drug squad in my flat & i had EVERY NEWSPAPER headline blu tacked to the wall " B*STARD" was one headline showing the copper who set them up ( no charges were ever brought ) his name was Dixon - anyway the old bill were so preocupied with the lovely art work they forgot to look in the fireplace that didnt work - where 2 kilos of weed were :)