Guildford Four's Gerry Conlon was on verge of suicide in prison, letters show

"This is not something I want to do but you can only suffer so much and to suffer it for something you didn't do makes the suffering intolerable."

The Guildford Four's Gerry Conlon felt such despair after 12 years in prison that he was on the verge of suicide, private letters to the Government have revealed.

While languishing in Long Lartin prison in England in 1987, seven years after his father Giuseppe died in jail, Mr Conlon wrote how he could not face another 18 years of "living hell".