David Cameron will “look at” the possibility of fulfilling Gerry Conlon’s dying wish for people he nominated to have access to secret government documents about the 1974 IRA Guildford pub bombing for which he was wrongly jailed.

Gerry Conlon, who was wrongly convicted of the 1974 IRA Guildford pub bombing, has died aged 60, his family have announced.

A Belfast man who was wrongly convicted of the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings accepted undisclosed libel damages today over a suggestion that there were grounds to believe he was guilty.

Relatives of Jill Dando’s killer Barry George today appealed to the public to come forward with any fresh evidence that might help clear his name.