Life after incarceration – Gerry Conlon’s story
In October 1974 the UK was at the height of the troubles. In Guildford, in the North of England, two bombs at two pubs were set off killing four soldiers and one civilian, and injuring a further sixty-five people. The attacks were the first in a year-long campaign by the IRA and the British police were under enormous pressure to capture those responsible. In December of the same year the police arrested three men and a woman, – Gerry Conlon, Paddy Hill, Patrick Armstrong and Carole Richardson. They spent the next fifteen years fighting to prove their innocence. Since his release, Gerry Conlon has been campaigning for other victims of miscarriage of justice – and he was in Adelaide recently to show his support for Ark Tribe – a construction worker who faces jail for refusing to tell the Australian Building and Construction Commission about a union meeting on heath and safety.