UK News 11-02-2005 who: Tony Blair what: Apologises to Guildford Four families for miscarriage of justice where: House of Commons, LONDON when: Wednesday snippet: "I am very sorry that they were subject to such an ordeal and injustice," he told members of the Conlon and Maguire families, via a recorded statement from his Commons office. "That is why I am making this apology today - they deserve to be completely and publicly exonerated." 11 people were wrongfully imprisoned for the IRA bomb attacks in Guildford and Woolwich in 1974, recalls The Guardian, reproducing the original Guildford bombing news report from Sunday October 6th, 1974. [... more]

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