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Guiseppe Conlon

 

Charge:

Conspiracy to violate one or more laws.

Sentence:

12 years

Years Imprisoned:

6

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1976

Year Cleared:

1980

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

United Kingdom

County or Region of Crime:

England

City of Crime:

London

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Posthumously - Died in prison

Summary of Case:

"Guiseppe Conlon was one of the Maguire Seven. Wrongly convicted of running an IRA bomb factory in north London. Taken into Custody in Dec. 1974. Father of Gerry Conlon, one of the Guildford Four wrongly convicted in 1975 of a 1974 pub bombing in Guildford, England. Guiseppe Conlon died in 1980 after being in custody for six years. He was exonerated in 1991 when the UK's Court of Appeals quashed the convictions of the Maguire Seven."

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Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

Innocent UK website

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http://www.innocent.org.uk/cases/maguire7/

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Book About Case:

""Miscarriage of Justice: An Irish Family's Story of Wrongful Conviction As Ira Terrorists" by Anne Maguire with Jim Gallaher (Roberts Rinehart Pub, 1994)"

Book Information:

http://www.innocent.org.uk/cases/maguire7/moj.pdf

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