![]() ![]() Hill threw a pink carnation to the press bench. ![]() The four strongly protested their innocence, and long-running campaigns to secure their release gathered support in Britain and Ireland.Ī police review found statements had been doctored and an appeal judge quashed the convictions and released them on October 19, 1989. The trial judge said he was disappointed they hadn't been charged with offences which carried the death penalty. They were convicted of the 1975 bombing which killed five people, and Armstrong and Hill of another in Woolwich which killed two. ![]() "I was a young hippie who took acid and smoked hash," Armstrong said last year. At the time of their conviction they were very young men and women - Gerry Conlon and Paul Hill were 21, while Paddy Armstrong was 25 and living in a squat with a 17-year-old English girl, Carole Richardson. ![]()
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