APOLOGY TO CONLON AND MAGUIRE FAMILIES

Early day motion 713, tabled 9 February 2005 by Kevin McNamara (Labour). Signed by 29 members.

That this House welcomes the statement of apology made by the Prime Minister to the Conlon and Maguire families; shares his recollection that the Guildford and Woolwich bombings killed seven people and injured over 100; recognises the loss suffered by these families will never go away but believes it serves no-one for the wrong people to be convicted; greatly regrets the miscarriage of justice in the case of Gerard Conlon and all the Guildford Four, as well as Giuseppe Conlon and Annie Maguire and all of the Maguire Seven; recognises the trauma that the conviction caused those families and the stigma which wrongly attaches to them to this day; expresses sorrow that the families were subject to such an ordeal and such an injustice; wholeheartedly agrees with the remarks of the Prime Minister; and believes that the families deserve to be completely and publicly exonerated.

Signatures by party: Labour 25, Labour/Co-operative 2, Plaid Cymru 1, Social Democratic and Labour Party 1.