In The Name of Gerry Conlon: RTÉ documentary recalls injustice of  Guildford Four 

A year before miscarriage of justice victim Gerry Conlon died, he spent time chatting with Italian director Lorenzo Moscia. Those interviews are at the heart of a documentary about a man who spent 15 years in prison 

Gerry Conlon, centre, outside the courthouse in London after he was released in 1989. (Picture: Photopress Belfast)

Gerry Conlon was wrongly imprisoned, as one of the 'Guildford Four', for the IRA bombing of an English pub in 1974 which killed five people. Anyone who saw the moment on television in October 1989 when Conlon was finally released from the Old Bailey in London after his conviction was quashed will never forget it. 

Conlon insisted on going out the front door of the courthouse, instead of being released discretely out a side door into a waiting taxi. With an arm raised by one of his sisters, he proclaimed his innocence with his dead father’s words echoing in his ears: “They put us in through the back door. You go out the front door and tell the world what they did to us.”