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Of the numerous charges of murder and arson brought against the beseiged of Balcombe St. certain key offences to which the defendants have pleaded guilty are missing from the indictment.

This is not surprising for three Irishmen and one young English woman have already been framed and are doing life for those offences, the pub bombings in Guildford and Woolwich.

After the seige of Balcombe St. was lifted one of those arrested, Butler, included the Guildford and Woolwich pub bombings amongst those for which he admitted responsibility.

At the time Surrey police who were carrying out the investigation, had quite a different and unconnected group of people custody.

Whether they would have proceeded with their prosecution "extracted" from the accused while in custody) if they had known of Butler's admission is now idle speculation, since the Bomb Squad kept the information from them.

Each of the Balcombe St. accused have given separate testimony from their different prisons, in front of lawyers and witnesses, admitting their own involvement and stating the innocence of those sentenced for the Guildford and Woolwich bombings.

Lawyers say their stories closely corroborate and that at many points they confirm information collected by Surrey police at the time of the investigation but not used in the trial and not made public.

Clearly this exposure of the way the state frames up groups of Irish people based on circumstantial and other evidence procurred by dubious methods explains the deafening embarrasing silence with which the so called "free" press has greeted the admisssions from

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Page 6 SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 2nd February, 1977 The army's task from the outset was a contradictory one. British imperialism's interests in Ireland in the Bloody Sunday murders.

If the Provisional policy in this period can be summarised in the

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