In The name of Gerry Conlon. TRAILER

Описание: DESCLAIMER: This trailer was made shortly after Gerry Conlon's death IN 2014 and does not represent the final In the name of Gerry Conlon documentary filmed between 2017 and 2022. The final documentary includes additional key interviews with:
Paddy Joe Hill -One of the Birmingham six and long time Conlon s friends
Gareth Peirce -The British lawyer who free Conlon and the other 3 from Guildford four and Bimingham six
Alastair Logan, Lawyer who represent Paddy Armstrong, Giuseppe Conlon and the other of the Maguire Seven
Paddy Armostrong -one of the Guildford four
Patrick Maguire -one of the Maguire seven
Jim Sheridan -in the name of the father s director
Ronald McCartney -former IRA s member who spend 30 years in British jai as long with some of the Guildford four
Patzi Macann -Gerry long time friend from Belfast and some other Gerry s close friend,



Belfast-born Gerry Conlon was just 20 years of age in 1974 when he and three of his compatriots were wrongly convicted of one of the most heinous IRA bombings ever committed in mainland Britain. In actual fact, the only crime the four young Irish people were guilty of was that they had left their native Ireland to seek employment in England at the peak of the Anglo-Irish conflict. The "Guildford Four", as they came to be known, proved to be the perfect scapegoats. Subjected to coercion, abuse and psychological duress, they were browbeaten into signing false confessions and ultimately convicted to life imprisonment. The Guildford Four were not the only victims of the wave of anti-Irish hysteria of the time. Gerry's father, Giuseppe Conlon, was one of them. Giuseppe went to London to help his son, only to find himself accused of transporting explosives and sentenced to 12 years in gaol. Critically ill and deprived of medicine, he died in prison in 1980.
It was not until fifteen years later, in 1989, that the innocence of Gerry Conlon and the other Guildford Four was finally proven and the British state admitted that its forces of law and order had falsified the evidence against them.