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The seven, members of the same family, were falsely accused of running a bomb-making factory for the Provisional IRA in the early 1970 s. One of them, Giuseppe Conlon, father of Gerard Conlon (one of four young people wrongly found guilty of the Guildford pub bombing), died in prison. He was arrested when he travelled from Belfast to England to try to help his son. Members of the London Metropolitan Police beat confessions out of some and withheld information that would have cleared them. The actual Perpetrators admitted the bombings when apprehended and informed the police and the Director Of Public Prosecutions that they had wrongfully sentenced others for these crimes. Despite this, no officers connected with the perversion of the course of justice were ever demoted or forced to resign. Tony Blair issued an apology for the miscarriage in 2005. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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