The Maguire Seven case was an infamous event of wrongful conviction in the United Kingdom. Their story, along with that of the Guildford Four, is told in the film In the Name of the Father. The Guildford Four were a group of people (Paul Hill, Gerry Conlon, Patrick Paddy Armstrong and Carole Richardson), who were wrongly convicted in the United Kingdom in October 1975 for the Provisional IRAs Guildford pub bombing — which killed five people and injured sixty-five more — and imprisoned for over... In The Name Of The Father is a 1993 film directed by Jim Sheridan which tells the story of a man, falsely convicted of the Provisional IRAs Guildford pub bombing, who tries to prevent his father from being involved in the accusation. ...

The seven, members of the same family, were falsely accused of running a bomb-making factory for the Provisional IRA in the early 1970s. One of them, Giuseppe Conlon, was arrested when he travelled from Belfast to England to try to help his son, Gerard Conlon (a member of the Guildford Four). He later died in prison, due to breathing difficulties; the rest of the Maguire Seven had their convictions quashed in 1991, a while after their prison sentences had been ended. The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) is a paramilitary group which aimed, through the use of violence, to achieve three goals: (i) British withdrawal from Ireland, (ii) the political unification of Ireland through the merger of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland , and (iii) the creation of an all... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 54. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2006 est. ... The Guildford Four were a group of people (Paul Hill, Gerry Conlon, Patrick Paddy Armstrong and Carole Richardson), who were wrongly convicted in the United Kingdom in October 1975 for the Provisional IRAs Guildford pub bombing — which killed five people and injured sixty-five more — and imprisoned for over...

It is alleged that members of the London Metropolitan Police beat confessions out of some of the members, and withheld information that would have cleared them. An IRA gang admitted the bombings when apprehended, and informed the police and the Director of Public Prosecutions that they had wrongfully sentenced others for these crimes. With no corroborating evidence, no officers involved were charged with the perversion of the course of justice. The Metropolitan Police Service (usually just referred to as the Metropolitan Police or the Met) are the police of Greater London, England, with the exception of the square mile of the City of London, which has its own police force, the City of London Police. ... The Balcombe Street Siege was an incident involving members of the Provisional IRA (Irish Republican Army) and the London Metropolitan Police lasting from December 6 to December 12, 1975. ... The Director of Public Prosecutions is the officer charged with the prosecution of criminal offences in several criminal jurisdictions around the world. ...

In 2005, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair issued an apology for the miscarriage, on television. The Speaker of the House Michael Martin refused to allow the Prime Minister to use his weekly Question Time to make the speech from the Dispatch Box. For other people of the same name, see Tony Blair (disambiguation) Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953)[1] is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, Leader of the UK Labour Party, and Member of the UK Parliament... In the United Kingdom, the Speaker of the House of Commons is the presiding officer of the House of Commons, and is seen historically as the First Commoner of the Land. ... Michael John Martin MP (born 3 July 1945) is the current Speaker of the House of Commons in the United Kingdom. ...

See also

• Guildford Four
• Birmingham Six

The Guildford Four were a group of people (Paul Hill, Gerry Conlon, Patrick Paddy Armstrong and Carole Richardson), who were wrongly convicted in the United Kingdom in October 1975 for the Provisional IRAs Guildford pub bombing — which killed five people and injured sixty-five more — and imprisoned for over... The Birmingham Six were six men—Hugh Callaghan, Patrick Hill, Gerard Hunter, Richard McIlkenny, William Power and John Walker—sentenced to life imprisonment in 1975 in an infamous miscarriage of justice for two pub bombings in Birmingham, England on November 21, 1974 that killed 21 people. ...

External links

• Obituary of Sister Sarah Clarke, a key figure in the campaign to free the Maguire Seven and other wrongfully imprisoned IRA suspects, which tells the story of the wrongful imprisonments.
• Miscarriages of justice