Anne Maguire

EDM number 760 in 1993-94, proposed by Harry Barnes on 07/03/1994.

That this House notes the wrongful conviction and imprisonment in 1976 of the Maguire 7 on bomb-making charges connected with the Guildford bombings of 1974; regrets that Anne Maguire spent nine years in prison; further regrets that her husband and two of her sons, Vince, and Patrick, who was 13 when arrested, were also jailed, while her third son and her daughter grew up without their mother; warmly welcomes the publication on 8th March of Anne Maguire's book, Why Me? - One Women's Fight for Justice and Dignity, which gives her account of her experiences and campaign to prove that she and her family were innocent; and agrees with the comment by Patrick Maguire in a recent open letter to Sinn Fein President, Gerry Adams, that while 'the police and the British legal system failed us all...if there had been no IRA bombing campaign in Britain, there would have been no miscarriages of justice.'.

This motion has been signed by a total of 27 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.