The True Story of Gerry Conlon: From Prison to Redemption | DM News English | Watch on Sky 522 — Transcript

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1. 0:00[Music]
2. 0:11I've been in prison 15 years for
3. 0:14something I didn't do. For something I
4. 0:16didn't know anything about. Totally
5. 0:19innocent man. I watched my father die in
6. 0:21a British prison for something he didn't
7. 0:23do. He is innocent. The McGuires is
8. 0:26innocent. Let's hope the Biden
9. 0:31>> Jerry Conland and three others had been
10. 0:34jailed for mass murder was arrested for
11. 0:36his supposed part and the IRA pub
12. 0:38bombings in Gil investigation found
13. 0:40serious flaws in the way Siri police had
14. 0:43handled the case. Jerry Conland walked
15. 0:45free from prison after serving 15 years
16. 0:48for a crime he never committed.
17. 0:50>> Jerry Conland was a victim of one of the
18. 0:52most serious miscarriages of justice in
19. 0:55British history. Jerry burst out of the
20. 0:58doors of the court and it was like an
21. 1:00animal coming out of captivity.
22. 1:03>> This has been the first time that the
23. 1:04British legal system had been exposed
24. 1:07for what they had done to innocent
25. 1:09people.
26. 1:09>> They told us that they knew that we had
27. 1:11nothing to do with the bombings, but
28. 1:13they said they didn't give a [ __ ]
29. 1:15>> Dr. Policeman came along. He said, "We
30. 1:17we know you didn't do it, but we're
31. 1:19going to do you." For 16 and 12 years,
32. 1:23we have been be used as political
33. 1:24scapegoats.
34. 1:26>> Justice, I don't think them people have
35. 1:29got the intelligence, nor the honesty
36. 1:31spell the word man dispensing, the
37. 1:35rotten.
38. 1:36>> Now on an emotional night, the premiere
39. 1:39of an inherently dramatic story of
40. 1:41father and son. The story of Jerry
41. 1:43Conland, one of the Guilford four who
42. 1:46love his father, Jeppe, who died in
43. 1:48prison in 1980.
44. 1:52I knew God knew they were innocent. They
45. 1:54knew they were innocent. I knew they
46. 1:56were innocent. And that gave me
47. 1:58strength. And God gave me strength every
48. 2:00day of my life.
49. 2:02>> All I want to keep doing is [ __ ]
50. 2:04highlighting what they did to us. You
51. 2:06know what country does this to its own
52. 2:08citizens? [ __ ] Penish does it. Set
53. 2:10them the same does it. All the [ __ ]
54. 2:12death pods and you set yourselves up as
55. 2:14[ __ ] moral guardians of [ __ ]
56. 2:16people's human rights. What about mine?
57. 2:18You trampled all over them. You murdered
58. 2:20my [ __ ] father.