The death at the age of 60 of Gerry Conlon, one of the four people wrongly convicted of the 1974 Guildford pub bombing, has revived unhappy memories of a terrible miscarriage of justice, but also of the role played by the late Cardinal Basil Hume in securing the release of most of those wrongly imprisoned. Conlon’s own father, Giuseppe, had sadly already died in prison after being similarly wrongly convicted. Gerry Conlon died of lung cancer on 21 June, four days after the fifteenth anniv