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| Guildford bomb campaigner dies | Guildford bomb campaigner dies |
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| West Belfast woman Sarah Conlon, whose husband Giuseppe and son, Gerry, were wrongly convicted over the Guildford IRA pub bombings has died aged 82. | |
| Mrs Conlon helped secure an apology from former prime minister Tony Blair in 2005 for the wrongful imprisonment of her husband and son. | Mrs Conlon helped secure an apology from former prime minister Tony Blair in 2005 for the wrongful imprisonment of her husband and son. |
| Her son Gerry spent 15 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of the Guildford bombing. | Her son Gerry spent 15 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of the Guildford bombing. |
| Guiseppe Conlon, arrested after going to London to help him, died in jail. | |
| Sarah Conlon spent 16 years campaigning to have the names of her husband and son cleared. | |
| Three years ago Tony Blair delivered a public apology to the Conlon and Maguire families, saying they deserved to be completely and publicly exonerated. | |
| The Guildford Four - Gerry Conlon, Paul Hill, Carole Richardson and Paddy Armstrong - were jailed for life in 1975 for an IRA bombing campaign which killed five people and injured 65. | |
| The Maguire Seven - members and friends of the Maguire family, including Guiseppe Conlon - were convicted of possessing nitro-glycerine allegedly passed to the IRA to make bombs. | |
| SDLP leader Mark Durkan, paid tribute to Mrs Conlon, who died of cancer. | |
| "Of no-one can the words 'patience of a saint' be more true and she was not just distinguished by her patience," he said. | |
| "This small lady of frail frame had huge reserves of faith, fortitude and remarkable forgiveness. | |
| "What Sarah, Guiseppe and Gerry Conlon and their family had to endure physically, psychologically and personally would have given Sarah more cause to hate than most." |