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Gerry Conlon: A life cut short by criminal injustice
Conlon’s death in Belfast last week highlights the disgraceful story of perhaps the worst case of injustice in British history, writes PETER FROST
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Gerry Conlon, who died last Saturday in Belfast aged just 60, spent 15 years — a quarter of his entire life — in prison in one of the most outrageous abuses of the criminal and judicial process seen in Britain.
Conlon was convicted of carrying out an IRA bombing on a Surrey pub. He and three others were beaten and tortured by police until they finally confessed. In reality, after the treatment they received, they would have confessed to anything.
As part of that confession Conlon blurted out that he had learnt bomb-making from his aunt Annie.
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