Guildford Four release

Title

Guildford Four release

Genre

News report; Interview; Special

TX Date

19 Oct 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:04:08

Description

Reporter Sally Eden looks back on the campaign for freedom for the Guildford Four whose convictions for IRA pub bombings 15 years ago on basis of false confessions have now been considered wrongful. After 2 Yorkshire Television documentaries and an intervention by top politicians an appeal was announced. Includes actuality from the scene of the bombings; interviews with lawyer Alastair Logan who took on the cases of Carole Richardson and Patrick Armstrong; Home Secretary Merlyn Rees; Guildford MP, David Howell after announcement of appeal; Paul Hill’s Uncle Errol Smalley. Originally from County Sound Radio.

Contributors

Merlyn Rees; David Howell; County Sound Radio; Errol Smalley; Sally Eden; Alastair Logan

Keywords

Terrorism; Police; IRA; Policing practice; Courts; Imprisonment; Legal decisions; Trials; Prisoners; Criminal justice system; Appeals; DPP; Miscarriages of justice; Guildford Four; Paul Hill; Patrick Armstrong; Carole Richardson

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