Paul Michael Hill (Guildford pub bombings)

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Life Imprisonment
Years Imprisoned:	15
Year Crime:	1974
Year Convicted:	1975
Year Cleared:	1989
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	United Kingdom
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City of Crime:	Guildford
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Paul HIll was one of the Guildford Four. The four defendants were framed by the police and falsely convicted in October 1975 of two bombings on Oct. 5, 1974 in Guildford, England. The bombings were at the Horse & Groom and the Seven Stars pub in which four off-duty soldiers and one civilian were killed. At their sentencing the judge said he wished they had been charged with treason so he could sentence them to death. In 1989 the convictions of the Guildford Ford were quashed. The story of how the police and prosecution orchestrated their false prosecution is dramatized in the 1993 movie starring Daniel Day Lewis: "In the Name of the Father." While jailed as a suspect in the Guildford Bombing Paul Hill also was tortured into falsely confessing to the murder of a British soldier, Brian Shaw. Convicted of Shaw's murder, after his Guildford Pub bombing conviction was quashed, Hill was released on bail in 1989, pending his appeal against his conviction of murdering Shaw. Five years later, in 1994, the Court of Appeal in Belfast quashed Hill's conviction for Brian Shaw's murder. Paul Michael Hill holds the distinction of falsely confessing to two separate murders that occurred in different places at different times."
Conviction Caused By:	Tortured by the police into falsely confessing to the Guildford Pub bombing.
Innocence Proved By:	"England's Court of Appeal quashed the convictions of all four defendants on Oct. 22, 1989."
Defendant Aided By:	"Attorney Gareth Peirce dug for years before finding the exonerating evidence that substantiated Gerry Conlon and Paul Hill's alibi, which meant all four of the Guildford Four were innocent."
Compensation Awarded:	£200k interim pymt
Was Perpetrator Identified?
Age When Imprisoned:	21
Age When Released:	36
Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	White
Information Source 1:	"In the Name of the Father - Review of the book and movie, by Hans Sherrer, Justice:Denied magazine, Vol. 2, No. 4"
Information Location 1:	http://www.justicedenied.org/inthenameofthefather.htm
Information Source 2:	""The Psychology of Interrogations, Confessions and Testimony," Gisli H. Gudjonsson, John Wiley & Sons, 1992, p. 260-268, 272-273"
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Information Source 3:	Innocent UK website
Information Location 3:	http://innocent.org.uk/cases/guildford4/
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Book About Case:	""In the Name of the Father," Gerry Conlin, Plume, UK, 1993"
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Movie About Case:	""In the Name of the Father," 1993"
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Paul Michael Hill (Guildford pub bombings)

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Life Imprisonment

Years Imprisoned:

15

Year Crime:

1974

Year Convicted:

1975

Year Cleared:

1989

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

United Kingdom

County or Region of Crime:

City of Crime:

Guildford

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Tortured by the police into falsely confessing to the Guildford Pub bombing.

Innocence Proved By:

"England's Court of Appeal quashed the convictions of all four defendants on Oct. 22, 1989."

Defendant Aided By:

"Attorney Gareth Peirce dug for years before finding the exonerating evidence that substantiated Gerry Conlon and Paul Hill's alibi, which meant all four of the Guildford Four were innocent."

Compensation Awarded:

£200k interim pymt

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

21

Age When Released:

36

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

White

Information Source 1:

"In the Name of the Father - Review of the book and movie, by Hans Sherrer, Justice:Denied magazine, Vol. 2, No. 4"

Information Location 1:

http://www.justicedenied.org/inthenameofthefather.htm

Information Source 2:

""The Psychology of Interrogations, Confessions and Testimony," Gisli H. Gudjonsson, John Wiley & Sons, 1992, p. 260-268, 272-273"

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Information Source 3:

Innocent UK website

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http://innocent.org.uk/cases/guildford4/

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Book About Case:

""In the Name of the Father," Gerry Conlin, Plume, UK, 1993"

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Movie About Case:

""In the Name of the Father," 1993"

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