He was a very ill man. He told his wife that he was coming to London, got off the boat at Liverpool and came to London. The Irish News says exactly the same. The noble Lord will recall that I asked three specific questions during the course of my remarks. The days are new; the same hysteria of which we have been reminded does not now obtain. But if that is once shaken in me and many others, then we ought to look at it again and take it seriously. Anne Maguire was walking to the shops with her three children on 10 August 1976, in Belfast, Ireland, when tragedy struck. Many other substances could give a similar reading. Here we are, on a Friday afternoon—I wish there were more Members of your Lordships' House present—devoting some hours of our time because this is the place where justice rules, not only in our courts but in our Parliament, when we legislate and when we revise, as we do in this House. When he went to prison, he was of a very tender age. Although Mr. Kee may persuade me that the Maguires are honest and wronged people, that is not a reason which is likely to persuade the Home Office. § None of us does. I am probably not a very good judge of character. To the Provisional IRA, however, she was a senior armourer who taught their half-trained recruits the art of making bombs when they were posted to London on 'active service'. There certainly was not in this case. § They were tried and convicted on 4 March 1976 and received the following sentences: They looked at her. § She said, "Yes. The Belfast Telegraph has maintained its interest in this case. Perhaps the most incredible part of the whole business is what happened to Mr. Pat O'Neill, who came to the Maguires' house as a visitor, as we have heard, that afternoon. I believe that the police who were involved in this case honestly believed that they were dealing with people who had been engaged in preparing substances which could be used to cause explosions. referred, as did others. He and I discussed the case. Now perhaps it will concede that circumstances, and the credibility of the old evidence, have changed". Lord Fitt rose to ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will reopen the case of Annie Maguire and her family who were convicted and sentenced in 1976. Why was that not found by the sniffer dogs, or the detection equipment? As education chief of a Conservative council, Maria Gatland was one of the most respected members of her community. They've just gone down to 'The Royal Lancer' ". On the contrary, they are brave people. Evidently it was extremely minute, but the contaminated material, as it was referred to, was put into a solution and it turned red. When I first became involved in this case, when I read those headlines in the popular press in 1975, I, too, was filled with loathing and contempt for the person known as Auntie Annie, because I was inclined to believe that such a person existed, as that was the way it was reported in the newspapers. Her family, as well as staff and a small number of pupils attended the ceremony at the Catholic Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, in Moortown. However, after having obtained this result it was then up to the forensic people to put any other contaminated material through confirmatory tests; but there was none left. 1393 They regard themselves as English. These matters should be examined, under whatever procedure may be open to the Minister, in the light of the new evidence, facts and doubts that have been cast on these people's convictions, and the fact that even after serving all those years they are out, still moving among the community, still protesting their innocence, not in any way bitter but rightly demanding that they ought to be given justice. Then the police went back to the house and arrested Annie Maguire and her two young sons. They did further tests on other substances which had exactly the same effect as this speck of nitro-glycerine. I am only involved because I went to Channel 4 television because I have the honour to remember the noble Lord, Lord Fitt, as a good personal friend. They have all now completed those sentences. § One of those planks of goodwill must be that justice has to be seen to be done in all cases, no matter what the crime is or not. This was the one and only case in modern times in which persons were convicted and sentenced to such terms of imprisonment on such flimsy evidence—evidence which has now been contradicted by Professor Brian Beechey at the University of Wales, Professor Brian Caddy at the University of Strathclyde and Professor Boyle at Trinity College, Dublin. The scientific evidence was central among the issues considered in July 1977, at exceptional length, by the Court of Appeal. I am involved. The Archbishop of Westminster Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor presented the Bene Merenti medal at the Sacred Heart of Jesus parish in north London. I felt the terror that must have been eating into the hearts of the British people when such an indiscriminate campaign of murder was brought to these shores. The point was, in any case, put to the Court of Appeal which, while accepting that he had only recently arrived in the Maguires' house because of his son's arrest, commented that, whatever the period of his stay there, he must have known perfectly well what was going on and have lent himself to the activities. That in itself would indicate that they were not anti-British. It is a wonderful example of our traditions that pleas should be listened to on behalf of people who have been convicted in our courts before a judge and jury, and whose appeals have been dismissed before the Court of Criminal Appeal, as it then was: that there is still the right of the citizen to ask people who are public-spirited—and all those who have participated in this debate have been public-spirited—to come and plead the cause of a review of the situation because they believe that justice was not done. On the evidence of the swabs, they were charged with possessing nitro-glycerine for an unlawful purpose. 1401 Let me give him what I consider to be new evidence, or matters of consideration of substance. He is portrayed by Daniel Day-Lewis. They argued that the TLC tests could not eliminate the possibility that some substance other than nitro-glycerine, but having similar characteristics, was present, and that further tests should have been made. It happened again in 1940 when all male enemy aliens were imprisoned—unfairly, but to my mind perfectly justifiably. Nothing will ever fill the gap that we have lost between each other. They had been sentenced by this time. Everything else was purely circumstantial. Others have come forward who have written articles in professional journals and magazines, which I could quote at length; they have said that the evidence that was given in that film and in the television series certainly suggests that there are some doubts. It would have been a terrible thing to find out that these people next door were secretly manufacturing, and so on. Good men never harm themselves by admitting they have pressed their case too hard. Guiseppe Conlon had been taken rather ill and was in the adjoining Hammersmith Hospital. Where the substance came from I have no idea. They say that if the police had searched and found nothing and took the items away to some other place and then returned and said that they found something on one of those items, why did they not find it before they took the items away? Anne Maguire, He told me that on his cell door there was a little board which gave his name, his crime, etc. Sometimes it was swallowed in the form of long-acting tablets, also". That day, however, according to the police, she had helped to hide a large quantity of nitro-glycerine that had been stored either in or near her home. The incident in which the two children were killed had its beginnings early yesterday morning when a light-blue Cortina was hijacked from the Moneen Garage at the corner of Finaghy Road North and the Andersonstown Road. Within two or three days—I was a Member of another place—I began to get telephone messages asking would I please ring Professor Beechey. And during the course of that trial the original statement made by Gerry Conlon to the effect that his Auntie Annie taught him to make bombs was again put forward because it was part of the evidence in the trial that was given by the police. I want you to promise that when I die you will continue the campaign to prove that I am innocent of any crime". Traces of alleged nitro-glycerine were found on the hands of all the men who had been brought to the police station. Facebook gives people the power to... Log in or sign up for Facebook to connect with friends, family and My Lords, before the noble Lord the Minister continues, may I immediately thank him? The gloves were in the house in I know only too well the background of most of these cases, and the people involved. She answered, "I don't know why you're here". Understandably, the police must have rejoiced when they obtained a statement from that miserable fellow Gerry Conlon that his aunt was making bombs at her home. A great deal of doubt exists in scientific circles as to whether nitro-glycerine gives a unique response. What was that evidence? The forensic evidence upon which this lady and the members of her family were convicted was the only evidence. That was the way it was described in court. I shall most certainly draw the attention of my right honourable and learned friend to what has been said today and to the way in which it has been said. I know from my long reading of the case and from what I have heard about it since that as regards the incident of the gloves the house was thoroughly searched. I live with those memories. I believe that they carried out a proper search. They produced a full-page assessment, and were driven to the conclusion that Guiseppe Conlon, who had been convicted on forensic evidence, was totally innocent. Annie Maguire had four children: three boys and a little girl. They had dogs with them. On appeal the defence argued that the trial judge had failed to appreciate the significance of the note and should have explained how it cast doubt upon the TLC method. And that evidence was given to the court—no substance of any description was found in that house at 43 Third Avenue and nothing was found on Annie Maguire's hands. As I said, I had never heard of him. In 1974 there was the awful coach blast on the M.62 in which 12 people were killed, and probably worst of all was the Birmingham bomb on 21st November 1974 when 21 people were killed and 182 injured. I hope that the Minister will give us more hope that there is some substance in what we are saying, to the extent that he will ask his right honourable friend the Home Secretary to use his powers under Section 17 of the Criminal Justice Act 1968 to have this appeal procedure reopened. I have been a member of deputations to a succession of Home Secretaries and we have been met with the usual Civil Service jargon from those civil servants who accompany the Minister. In addition, paramilitary groups, including the prominent Irish Republican Army (IRA), launched terrorist attacks to advance their political agendas.
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