The Guildford Four - Vocabulary

The Historical Truth

In the Name of the Father takes liberties with the truth as the Guilford Four – who ______________________________ bombing a pub in Guildford, England in 1974, killing five people – and the Maguire Seven, ______________________ being their support network, were judged at different times.

The aim of the IRA bombing campaign was to “bring the war home” to England. Soon after, four young Irish people _________________________ and kept under __________________________ where they confessed to the bombing after being under ___________________ and suffering psychological and physical violence. In 1975, under the witch-hunt atmosphere which pervaded England at the time, the Four ______________________ to life imprisonment.

In 1988, under growing public pressure, the police were assigned to investigate the 1975 police procedures. They discovered a series of appalling practices: coercion of chief defence _______________________, the “loss” of important documents that would have proved the Four’s ______________________, and downright lies under ______________. Several of the policemen involved then stood ______________ themselves.

The Guilford Four ______________________ in 1989 in the light of new __________________ revealed by the investigation, but adjustment has been painful, as they have all experienced post traumatic stress syndrome due to the long, _________________ imprisonment. In June 2000, 25 years later, Tony Blair became the first person in authority to apologise for the miscarriage of _____________________.

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