GUILDFORD FOUR

Motion Text

That this House is deeply concerned at the attempts of the establishment to re-convict the Guildford Four; records that the four, Paul Hill, Gerry Conlon, Patrick Armstrong and Carole Richardson spent fourteen years in prison for a crime they did not commit on convictions based only on uncorroborated confessions; notes that the Surrey officers acquitted by the court offered no defence thus preventing challenge to the assertions of their counsel and that their prosecution effectively stopped the May Inquiry proceeding due to the sub judice rule; and calls for a public examination of all the police actions surrounding the Guildford confessions and an explanation from the Surrey police of their activities at that time.