Gerry Conlon, who maintained an 18-year struggle for justice after being wrongly jailed as one of the Guildford Four, died on 21 June 2014 in Belfast aged 60. Gerry was wrongly jailed for 15 years after being falsely convicted of the 1974 Guildford pub bombings. He was accused of being a part of the so-called 'Provisional IRA' when the bombings occurred in November 1974, killing five people and injuring 74. He was only released in 1989, when the Court of Appeal concluded that the police had suppressed evidence and forced false confessions from them. In 1989, Conlon collaborated with the Guildford Four to write a book entitled Proved Innocent: The Story of Gerry Conlon of the Guildford Four. In 2005, Conlon and Paul Hill, another victim of the miscarriage of justice, were awarded £500,000 in compensation. Eventually in 2014, due to years of drug abuse, Gerry was diagnosed with lung cancer, and was forced to abandon his struggle for justice. Gerry was a passionate and outspoken campaigner who fought against injustice, from his own experience of being wrongfully convicted, to the treatment of refugees. He is survived by his daughter, and his mother Sarah Conlon, who was also wrongly convicted in the Guildford pub bombing case.