January 7 1975
TWO men accused of taking part in the Woolwich and Guildford pub bombings were remanded in custody for a further week at Guildford yesterday.
Paul Hill (20), and Patrick Armstrong (24), are both accused of the murder of Richard Sloan Dunn, at Woolwich and the murder of 18-year-old WRAC recruit Caroline Slater, at Guildford.
Six other people accused of the murder of Caroline Slater then appeared in court and were also remanded in custody for seven days.
They are John Joseph McGuiness (20); Brian Anderson (22); Paul Joseph Coleman (18); Gerard Patrick Conlon (20); Carole Richardson (17) and Mrs Anne Maguire (39).
Three men were then further remanded in custody for seven days accused of possessing nitro glycerine in the Greater London area for unlawful purposes.
They are Patrick O’Neill (34); William Smyth (36); and Patrick Maguire (41).
Mrs Maguire also faces a similar charge, and a fourth man, Patrick Conlon (51), who is on the same charge, was unable to appear because he is ill in a prison hospital.
The last man to appear was John Joseph Mullin (22), who was further remanded in custody for seven days accused of conspiring to cause explosions in the Greater London area.
The brief hearing was held under strict security and police sealed the road outside the court. Reporting restrictions were not lifted.
Police are withholding the addresses of the accused.
The people who became known as the Guildford Four and the Maguire Seven were subsequently wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for the pub bombings in Guildford and Woolwich, the convictions eventually overturned in 1989 and 1991 respectively.
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Angry exchanges at UN
Recent Israeli and Palestinian raids across the Israeli-Lebanon border brought a new exchange of angry accusations at the United Nations yesterday.
Lebanon protested in a letter to the Security Council that Israel has committed 423 acts of aggression during the past four weeks.
The letter said Lebanon was reserving the right to call the Security Council into session “at an appropriate time should it deem that necessary”.
Israel branded the Lebanese protest “another transparent attempt by the government of Lebanon to mislead everybody concerned and conceal the truth”.
In a letter to Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, Israeli delegate Jacob Doron said that by permitting the Palestinian guerrillas to operate on its soil, Lebanon forced Israel to “take continuous defence actions” and because of this “cannot escape all the consequences”.
The conflict between Israel and Lebanon escalated in the following years, with Israel’s first invasion of Lebanon taking place in 1978.
