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The Guildford Four and the Maguire Seven were the collective names of two groups whose convictions in English courts in 1975 and 1976 for the Guildford pub bombings of 5 October 1974 were eventually quashed after long campaigns for justice.

The Guildford Four were wrongly convicted of bombings carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), and the Maguire Seven were wrongly convicted of handling explosives found during the investigation into the bombings.

Both groups' convictions were eventually declared "unsafe and unsatisfactory" and reversed in 1989 and 1991 respectively after they had served up to 15–16 years in prison.

Along with the Maguires and the Guildford Four, several other people faced charges relating to the bombings, six of them charged with murder, but these charges were dropped.

No one else was charged with the bombings, or supplying the material; three police officers were charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and found not guilty.

After their arrest, all four defendants confessed to the bombing under intense coercion by the police.

These statements were later retracted but remained the basis of the case against them. They would later be alleged to be the result of coercion by the police, ranging from intimidation to torture—including threats against family members—as well as the effects of drug withdrawal.

Conlon wrote in his autobiography that a key factor in his purportedly coerced confession was the fact that strengthened anti-terrorism laws passed in the early 1970s allowed the police to hold suspects without charges for up to a week, rather than the previous limit of 48 hours and that he might have been able to withstand the treatment he had received had the original time limit been in effect.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guildford_Four_and_Maguire_Seven https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guildford_pub_bombings https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/mar/01/gerry-conlon-life-after-guildford-four-play https://www.irishcentral.com/opinion/others/guildford-four-freed https://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2020/01/03/news/concerns-raised-after-guildford-four-files-closed-1804475/

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She explains her dislike of most charities that state they support Autism. For various reasons have made her feel and others like her feel, they need to be fixed or even eradicated with Genetic research and new prenatal testing now being researched.

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In this video, Lacy talks about being Autistic, some of the controversies around some charities. The Month of April is all about Autism, so we hope you find this video informative. Thanks for watching.

Christina and Lacy

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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/genetic-tests-for-autism-can-sometimes-change-lives/ https://journals.lww.com/co-pediatrics/Fulltext/2015/12000/Genetic_research_in_autism_spectrum_disorders.6.aspx https://www.nature.com/articles/gim2012145.pdf?origin=ppub https://www.nature.com/articles/gim200746 https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2020/02/04/largest-ever-genetic-study-of-autism-yields-new-insights/

The murder of Jodi Jones, a 14-year-old girl, took place in Dalkeith, Scotland on 30 June 2003. Her 15-year-old boyfriend, Luke Mitchell, came under suspicion, but it was several months before he was arrested.

Mitchell was tried for the murder and after Scotland's longest single-accused trial, Mitchell was convicted in January 2005 despite there being no direct evidence against him.

He was sentenced to detention without limit of time with a minimum of 20 years. Mitchell continues to protest his innocence and has insisted he will only walk out of prison a free man. He will not accept liability for early release or parole.

Is this another miscarriage of Justice? Is he guilty or Innocent?

Paul John Knowles also known as The Casanova Killer, was an American serial killer tied to the deaths of 20 people in 1974, though he claimed to have taken 35 lives.

Paul John Knowles was a handsome man, six feet tall and red-haired, with his looks which were a "cross between Robert Redford and Ryan O'Neal” He was dubbed “The Casanova Killer” because of his good looks and charm.

Born in Orlando, Florida, his father gave him up to live in foster homes and reformatories after he was convicted of a petty crime. Knowles himself was first incarcerated at the age of 19, and in the years following, he spent more time in prison.

Knowles' cross-country murder spree began in Jacksonville on the night of his escape from a detention centre. He broke into the home of 65-year-old Alice Curtis, bound and gagged her, ransacked her home for money and valuables, then stole her car. Curtis choked to death on her gag.

On the street where he intended to abandon the car, Knowles recognized family acquaintances Lillian and Mylette Anderson.

Lillian was eleven years old, and her sister Mylette was seven. In fear that they would identify him, he kidnapped them both, strangled them, and buried their bodies in a nearby swamp.

The Murders continued ...

Robert William "Willy" Pickton (born 24 October 1949) is a Canadian serial killer who was convicted of the second degree murders of six women.

Arrested in 2002, he was the subject of a lengthy investigation that yielded evidence of numerous other murders.

Pickton was charged with the deaths of an additional twenty women, many of them from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, but these charges were stayed by the Crown in 2010.

Pickton was sentenced to life in prison, with no possibility of parole for 25 years – the longest sentence for murder under Canadian law at the time he was sentenced.

During the trial's first day of jury evidence, the Crown stated that Pickton had confessed to 49 murders to an undercover agent from the Office of Inspector General, who was posing as a cellmate.

The Crown reported that Pickton told the officer that he wanted to kill another woman to make it an even 50, and that he was caught because he was "sloppy".

Carroll Edward Cole (May 9, 1938 – December 6, 1985) was an American serial killer who was executed in 1985 for killing at least fifteen women and one boy by strangulation between 1947-1980.

Coles early life was troubled, He was born in Sioux City, Iowa, the second son of LaVerne and Vesta Cole.

His younger sister was born in 1939 and soon afterwards, his family moved to California, where LaVerne found work in a shipyard. Not long after that, LaVerne went to fight in World War II.

While his father was away, his mother had several affairs and sometimes took Cole along to her rendezvous, threatening to beat him if he told his father.

Vesta was emotionally abusive to Cole and dressed him as a girl.

At school, he was teased about his "girl's name" by his peers.

At age 8, he retaliated against one of his classmates, a boy of the same age named Duane, by drowning him in a lake in Richmond, California.

The death was regarded an accident by authorities, until Cole confessed to it many years later in an autobiography he wrote in prison.

As a teen, Cole committed several petty crimes and was frequently arrested for drunkenness and minor thefts.

In 1960, Cole attacked two couples parked in cars on a lover's lane.

Soon afterwards, he called the police in Richmond, California, where he was living, and told them that he was plagued by violent fantasies involving strangling women.

Cole spent time in various mental hospitals over the next three years. At the last of them, Stockton State Hospital.

Cole's first victim as an adult was Essie L. Buck, whom he had picked up in a San Diego tavern on May 7, 1971. Just two weeks later, he killed an unidentified woman and buried her in a wooded area.

He later claimed that they had proven themselves unfaithful to their husbands, and so reminded him of his adulterous mother. As the killing continued from State to state, He finally apprehended but even then, he could have walked free, but he decided to tell all about his crimes and was arrested.

Suzy Lamplugh vanished 35 years ago, and her disappearance remains one of the most enduring mysteries in British criminal history with the last clue to her whereabouts a house appointment with a 'Mr Kipper'

Suzy Lamplugh was 25 when she was reported missing on Monday July 28, 1986.

She was last seen in Fulham, West London, at around 1pm on that day.

Suzy was working as an estate agent at Sturgis Estate Agents, on Fulham Road,

and left her office to meet a prospective client to view a flat, but she did not arrive back at her office.

Following Suzy disappearance, police tested the DNA of 800 unidentified bodies and skeletal remains that matched her description.

Suzy Lamplugh was officially declared dead in 1994; she was presumed to have been murdered. Renewed police investigations in 1998 and 2000 failed to trace her.

In November 2002, it was reported that convicted rapist and murderer John Cannan could have killed Lamplugh.

John Cannan was born 20 February 1954. He had been released from a prison hostel only days before she went missing, and it was claimed that his nickname in prison was "Kipper".

A former car salesman, he was convicted in July 1988 of murder and sexual offences. He targeted professional women.

Other possible suspects:

In 1982, Suzy Lamplugh had worked as a beautician on the ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2. At the same time, Steve Wright, who was convicted in February 2008 of the murder of five prostitutes in Ipswich, was working as a steward on the QE2 at the same time? Possible!

As of 2021, the case remains unsolved.

Let’s look at the evidence.

This is a disturbing and graphic case.

Please be warned. Content may be upsetting.

In the final part of the case of Rose and Fred West, I continue to discuss the horrific murders at 25 Cromwell street. The true horror of their crimes is revealed.

Fred’s suicide was due to Rose continuing to have no contact with him after he was arrested.

Fred reveals Rose’s part in all the crimes before he takes his own life.

We look at the aftermath, the victims and Rose from sentencing to up-dated information in 2020.

Mark David Chapman (born May 10, 1955) is an American criminal who murdered John Lennon, formerly of the Beatles, outside Lennon's apartment at the Dakota, in Manhattan, on December 8, 1980.

As Lennon walked into the building's archway with his wife Yoko Ono, Chapman fired five shots at Lennon from several meters away with a Charter Arms Undercover .38 Special revolver. Lennon was hit four times from the back.

Chapman remained at the scene reading J. D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye until he was arrested by police. He planned to cite the novel as his manifesto.

Raised in Georgia, Chapman had been a fan of the Beatles, but was incensed by Lennon's lifestyle and public statements, such as his remark about the Beatles being "more popular than Jesus" and the lyrics of his later songs "God" and "Imagine".

In the early hours of Sunday June 27, 1999, an horrific multiple murder was committed at a house in Clydach Swansea Valley

Grandmother Doris Dawson, 80, her daughter Mandy Power, 34, and her granddaughters Katie, 10, and Emily, eight, were found dead in Kelvin Road.

Now there are Potential doubts over conviction of David Morris. Morris has protested his innocence and the campaign to overturn his conviction has been building in momentum.

South Wales Police has announced in March 2021 there will be an independent review of the brutal murders that took place more than 20 years ago of a disabled grandmother, a mother and her two little girls.

This was not merely a murder; this was a massacre. So, if David Morris did not do it, them a psychopathic killer is still out there!

Is this another Miscarriage of Justice? Let us look at the evidence.