Did the IRA attempt to point out the innocence of the Guildford 4 or Birmingham 6?
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There was at least one occasion when a member of the IRA publically stated that the Guildford Four had been wrongly convicted.
During the trial of the Balcombe Street gang in 1977, Joe O'Connell made a statement to the court in which he admitting to carrying out the bombings.
We have recognised this court to the extent that we have instructed our lawyers to draw the attention of the court to the fact that four totally innocent people - Carole Richardson, Gerry Conlon, Paul Hill and Paddy Armstrong - are serving massive sentences for three bombings, two in Guildford and one in Woolwich, which three of us and another man now imprisoned, have admitted that we did. The Director of Public Prosecutions was made aware of these admissions in December, 1975 and has chosen to do nothing.
SEARC'S WEB GUIDE – Joe O'Connell (born 1951) - Internet Archive
Note - I have no way to verify if this transcript of the statement is accurate, but for what it's worth, Wikipedia also refers to the same page.
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