Another victim
Socialist Press1980 1980-02-06Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 4 →
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A major outcry has developed following the death two weeks ago of Patrick Conlon who was serving a 12-year sentence after being found guilty on conspiracy and explosives charges.
He was arrested when he came to London in December 1974 to help his son Gerard Conlon who had been arrested on suspicion of involvement with the Woolwich and Guildford bombings. Gerard Conlon is now serving 30 years.
Mr Conlon Snr. had always protested his innocence and his supporters, who include Gerry Fitt and Belfast priest Father Faul are campaigning for the clearing of his name.
The campaign has been given fresh impetus by the support which has come from Fr. Vincent McK inley who only last week refused to allow into church the body of IRA member Kevin Delaney who died when a bomb he was transporting blew up on a train.
Support from this quarter demonstrates the breadth of feeling on this issue.
Conlon died from pneumonia after a hunger strike carried out as part of the campaign to clear his name.
At a Requiem Mass held for Conlon last week Fr. McK inley declared emphatically that he was "an innocent man".
He went on to argue that Conlon had been convicted because "Britain needed a scapegoat".
The claims that Willie Whitelaw had decided to release Conion when he came out of hospital are little use to the dead man or his family:
This case is simply one moje in a long line of examples of British brutalisation of the Irish people.
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