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

A great grandmother wrongly imprisoned for nine years for involvement in IRA bomb attacks received a papal honour yesterday, bestowed upon her by the late Pope John Paul II in one of his final acts.

IT was a long time coming, but when Tony Blair issued the prime ministerial public apology to the Conlon and Maguire families for their wrongful imprisonment for IRA bomb attacks, it exceeded their expectations.

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair is under renewed pressure to appoint a victims’ commissioner in the North following his public apology to the Conlon and Maguire families.

The Guildford Four and the Maguire Seven did not carry out the bombings – but who really did remains a mystery to this day.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair today publicly apologised to the Conlon and Maguire families for their wrongful imprisonment for the IRA bomb attacks in Guildford and Woolwich in 1974.

Miscarriage of justice victim Gerry Conlon said today it has been harder to clear his name than to get out of prison.

The victims of one of Britain’s biggest miscarriages of justice will travel to the House of Commons today in the hope that Tony Blair will publicly apologise for their wrongful imprisonment.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair could apologise within days over the wrongful imprisonment of father and son Gerry and Guiseppe Conlon for an IRA bomb attack on the Horse and Groom pub in Guildford.