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Maguire died in the sinking, his body, if recovered, was never identified. The Worcester Evening Gazette (18 April 1912) reported that upon learning about the death of John Maguire, his unmarried aunt Katherine Maguire (b. 1860), with whom he had a special attachment, took suddenly ill and died from the shock on 16 April 1912.
Upon learning of her nephew’s fate, John’s unmarried aunt Katherine Maguire (born 1860), with whom he shared a special bond, fell gravely ill. In a cruel twist of fate, she died from the shock on April 16, 1912, just one day after the Titanic disaster.
The Maguire Seven were charged with possessing nitroglycerine allegedly passed to the IRA to make bombs after the police raided the West Kilburn house of Anne Maguire (Conlon's aunt) on 3 December 1974.
Nov 30, 2018 · On 5 October 1974, the IRA detonated bombs blowing up two pubs in the garrison town popular with soldiers and killing five people and injuring many more.
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In December 1974, Annie Maguire, her now deceased husband Patrick, and their sons Vincent and Patrick – then aged 16 and 13 – were arrested for the October IRAbombings of two pubs in Guilford. Along with three other family friends – Sean Smyth, Patrick O’Neill and Patrick Conlon – they were held on suspicion of involvement in the bombings. The Magu...
It was claimed that the explosive substance nitro-glycerine was found on their hands and in their house – and this, along with the coerced confessions, was enough for the prosecution.
They were tried and convicted on 4 March 1976. Annie and her husband were jailed for 14 years each. Their sons Patrick and Vincent were given sentences of four and five years, respectively. Anne Maguire’s brother Smyth, her brother-in-law Conlon and friend O’Neill all received 12-year-sentences.
The Maguires unsuccessfully appealed their sentence and a growing body of different groups pressed for a re-examination of the case. On 12 July 1990, the then Home Secretary David Waddington published an inquiry into the convictions which criticised the trial judge Mr Justice Donaldson and unearthed improprieties in the handling of scientific evide...
Nov 19, 2018 · The Maguire Seven all served their sentences apart from Guiseppe Conlon, who died in prison in 1980, before the Court of Appeal overturned his conviction.
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