Received this further information from a list member re Paul HILL: Paul HILL m Mary Courtney KENNEDY d/o Robert KENNEDY and Ethel SKAKEL > 1 Jul 1993. > This case is dealt with at length in "The Woolwich and Guildford pub-bomb cases" by Bob Woffinden in his 1987 book Miscarriages of Justice covering as the arrest and trial of the four young people who went on to become known as the Guildford Four. Hill, Gerry Conlon, Patrick Armstrong and Carole Richardson were given life sentences for bombing public houses in Guildford, Surrey. Each spent 15 years in prison before their convictions were overturned by the court of appeal in 1989. Twenty-five years after four young people were wrongfully convicted of the Guildford pub bombings in 1974, Tony Blair has become the first person in authority to apologise for the miscarriage of justice. > Hill, 45, has received £200,000 as interim compensation for the time he spent in prison and is still awaiting a final settlement. > Ellen > > "Jean Rice" <jeanrice@cet.com> wrote: > > >BIO: He raised his hands above his head and said, "You have the wrong man." In 1975, Paul HILL, a 21-year-old man from Northern Ireland, was sentenced to a lifetime in prison for pub bombings in Britain. It was the longest such sentence by a British court. As the years were taken from him, Hill could do nothing but hold onto his innocence. Fifteen years later, including four years in solitary confinement, Hill was set free when the British government finally admitted that officers lied at the original trial. It might not have happened without the help of family, friends, and the organization "Amnesty International." > > > >-- Excerpt, "Irish America" magazine.