Blair Apologizes for False Imprisonment
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Prime Minister Tony Blair apologized to 11 people wrongfully jailed for IRA bombings three decades ago.
Members of the Conlon and Maguire families were jailed for 1974 Irish Republican Army bombings in Guildford and Woolwich in England that killed seven people and injured more than 100. The 11 people convicted were subsequently acquitted.
“I am very sorry that they were subject to such an ordeal and such an injustice,” Blair said.
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