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The Guildford Four, freed last week after spending 15 years in prison for cri
The Guildford Four, freed last week after spending 15 years in prison for cri
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2023-12-09
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The Guildford Four, freed last week after spending 15 years in prison for crimes they did not commit, would almost certainly have been executed for the pub bombing they were convicted of bad the death penalty been in force at the time of their trial. There may now be a decent interval before the pro-hanging lobby, which has the support of the Prime Minister, makes another attempt to reintroduce the noose.
Reflections along these lines were about the only kind of consolation to be derived from this gross miscarriage of justice which is now to be the subject of a judicial inquiry. In the meantime, defence lawyers are demanding compensation and have in mind about half a million pounds for each of their clients.
The first three to be released -- Mr. Gerald Conlon, Mr. Paddy Armstrong and Ms. Carole Richardson -- left prison with the 34 pounds which is given to all departing inmates. The fourth, Mr. Paul Hill, was not released immediately but taken to Belfast, where he lodged an appeal against his conviction for the murder of a former British soldier, Since this conviction, too, was based on the now discredited statements allegedly made to the Survey policy, he was immediately let out on bail. But he left empty-handed.
The immediate reaction to the scandal was renewed demand for the reexamination of the case against the Birmingham Six, who are serving life sentences for pub bombings in that city. Thus far the Home secretary, Mr, Douglas Hurd, is insisting that the two cases are not comparable; that what is now known about the Guilford investigation has no relevance to what happened in Birmingham.
Mr. Hurd is right to the extent that there was a small-though flimsy and hotly-contested -- amount of forensic evidence in the Birmingham case. The disturbing similarity is that the Birmingham Six, like the Guilford Four, claim that police of fleers lied and fabricated evidence to secure a conviction.
Making scapegoats of a few rogue police officers will not be sufficient to expunge the Guildford miscarriage of justice. These are already demands that the law should be changed: first to make it impossible to convict on "confessions" alone; and secondly to require that statements from accused persons should only be taken in the presence of an independent third party to ensure they are not made under coercion.
It was also being noted this week that ’the Guilford Four owe their release more to the persistence of investigative reporters than ’to the diligence of either the judiciary or the police. Yet investigative reports -- particularly on television -- have recently been a particular target for the condemnation of Mrs. Thatcher and some of her ministers who seem to think that TV should be muzzled in the public interest and left to get on with soap operas and quiz shows. [br] Why was there a renewed demand for the re-examination of the case against the Birmingham Six?
选项
A、The Birmingham Six were believed to have criminal connections with the Guildford Four.
B、The two cases were similar in that both were about pub bombings.
C、Tile bombings in Birmingham happened at the same time.
D、The Birmingham Six also claimed that there were police malpractices in their ease.
答案
D
解析
该题问:为什么针对the Birmingham Six的案件重新审查有新的要求?A项意为“The Birmingham Six被认为与the Guildford Four有犯罪联系”,在文中没有提及;B项意为“这两个案件的相似点在于两者都是关于酒吧爆炸案”,文中也没提及。C项意为“在伯明翰的爆炸案与Guildford和Woolwhich的爆炸案发生在同一时间”,文中亦没有提及。D项意为“The Birmingham Six也宜称在他们的案件中存在着警察渎职情况”,这在文中的第五段的最后一句中提到The disturbing similarity is that the Birmingham six,like the Guildford four,claim that police officers lied and fabricated evidence to secure a conviction,因此D项为正确选项。
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