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Race & Class ( IF 1.9 ) Pub Date : 1990-01-01 , DOI: 10.1177/030639689003100305
Graham Usher ₁

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在英国监狱被非法监禁 15 年后，吉尔福德四人——帕特里克·阿姆斯特朗、杰拉德·康伦、保罗·希尔和卡罗尔·理查森——最终于 1989 年 10 月 17 日获释，当时他们对爱尔兰共和军在吉尔福德和伍尔维奇的酒吧爆炸案的定罪被法院撤销上诉。在发现警方获取原始供词的方式存在重大违规行为后，检察长决定不维持原判。这四人因 1974 年 10 月吉尔福德 (Guildford) 的两家酒吧遭到炸弹袭击而被捕并被指控犯有谋杀和其他罪行，其中 5 人丧生。一个月后，希尔和阿姆斯特朗还被指控犯有谋杀罪，原因是一个月后伍尔维奇发生了类似的酒吧爆炸案。这些爆炸事件是爱尔兰共和军在英国本土发起的主要活动的一部分（其中还包括导致 21 人死亡的伯明翰酒吧爆炸事件），并在四人被捕后继续进行。吉尔福德四人被判无期徒刑，初审法官指出，如果不是废除死刑，他们将被判处绞刑。四人一直坚称清白，坚称自己的供述是武力取得的。为释放他们展开了一场漫长的运动。Race & Class 与 Gerard Conlon 和其他爱尔兰囚犯的律师 Gareth Pierce 就案件及其影响以及英国爱尔兰社区的治安问题进行了交谈。吉尔福德四人被判无期徒刑，初审法官指出，如果不是废除死刑，他们将被判处绞刑。四人一直坚称清白，坚称自己的供述是武力取得的。为释放他们展开了一场漫长的运动。Race & Class 与 Gerard Conlon 和其他爱尔兰囚犯的律师 Gareth Pierce 就案件及其影响以及英国爱尔兰社区的治安问题进行了交谈。吉尔福德四人被判无期徒刑，初审法官指出，如果不是废除死刑，他们将被判处绞刑。四人一直坚称清白，坚称自己的供述是武力取得的。为释放他们展开了一场漫长的运动。Race & Class 与 Gerard Conlon 和其他爱尔兰囚犯的律师 Gareth Pierce 就案件及其影响以及英国爱尔兰社区的治安问题进行了交谈。

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After fifteen years wrongful imprisonment in English gaols, the Guildford Four - Patrick Armstrong, Gerard Conlon, Paul Hill and Carole Richardson - were finally freed on 17 October 1989 when their convictions for the IRA pub bombings in Guildford and Woolwich were quashed by the Court of Appeal. The Director of Public Prosecutions had decided not to sustain the convictions, after major irregularities had been uncovered in the ways police had obtained their original confessions. The four had been arrested and charged with murder and other offences arising out of the bombing of two pubs in Guildford in October 1974, in which five people were killed. Hill and Armstrong were also charged with murder arising out of a similar pub bombing in Woolwich a month later. These bombings were part of a major IRA campaign on mainland Britain (which also included the Birmingham pub bombing in which twenty-one people died) and which continued beyond the arrest of the four. The Guildford Four received life sentences, the trial judge noting that had it not been for the abolition of capital punishment they would have been sentenced to hang. The four had always strongly asserted their innocence and insisted that their confessions had been obtained by force. A lengthy campaign had been waged for their release. Race & Class spoke to Gareth Pierce, solicitor for Gerard Conlon and other Irish prisoners, about the case and its implications, and about the policing of the Irish community in Britain.

更新日期：1990-01-01

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