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Bridgwater Four Campaign

01 November 1993

Supporters of the Bridgwater Four Campaign held a series of vigils outside the Home Office in London during the third week of November, to try to get the case referred back to the Court of Appeal so that the three surviving prisoners can be freed after 15 years in prison. During the same week, further discrepancies between police custody records and their reports of interviews with Pat Molloy, who died in prison in 1981, came to light. A Home Office official said that further inquiries would be made, but the Campaign points out that there have been enough secret police inquiries already into what has become one of the longest and most transparent miscarriages of justice still officially unacknowledged.

In a separate development, the High Court ordered the Home Secretary to refer Michael Hickey to the parole board. Since his 89-day rooftop protest at Gartree prison, Leicestershire in the winter of 1983-4, Michael suffered a breakdown and has been shuttled between prison and special hospital since. Michael Howard used his status as a mental patient to deny a parole hearing.

Guardian 23.10.93, 22.11.93.