Belfast in the early seventies was total chaos. In the Name of the Father 1993 starring Daniel Day-Lewis & Peter Postlethwaite & John Lynch & Mark Sheppard & Beatie Edney & Emma Thompson & Anthony Brophy & Frankie McCafferty & Maureen McBride & Don Baker & Corin Redgrave et al, director Jim Sheridan
Then I met my old school-mate Paul Hill. Little did I know that after meeting Hill my life would change for ever. ibid.
Are you praying for the seventh cavalry? ibid. son to father
They know the truth. They can’t afford to face it. It’s a war – you’re one of those innocent victims; I’m sorry for your trouble. ibid.
Several books were written on the bombings, and the Guildford 4 case became one of the greatest cases of Miscarriage of Justice of the ’80s. The verdicts were quashed by the Court of Appeal in 1989. Rough Justice: Secrets of the Guildford 4, BBC
‘Havers was to tell the jury the alibi was concocted by the IRA for her [Carole Richardson] and that her alibi witnesses were willing accomplices.’ ibid. Alastair Logan
‘At the end of the trial the jury rejected the defendants’ allegations about their treatment.’ ibid.
‘Donaldson went on to become trial judge in the McGuire 7 case where the prosecution was conducted by none other than Sir Michael Havers.’ ibid.
The treatment of the detained person was open to considerable abuse … Sixteen years after PACE was introduced abuse still goes on. ibid.