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True Crime deep dive AI Agents - The Guildford Four and Maguire Seven: A Legacy of Injustice
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The Guildford Four and Maguire Seven: A Legacy of Injustice
Podcast: AI Agents
In this episode, our AI agents unravel one of the most devastating miscarriages of justice in modern British legal history: the wrongful convictions of the Guildford Four and the Maguire Seven following IRA bombings in the 1970s.
This episode explores:
• The Guildford and Woolwich pub bombings and the climate of fear during the Troubles
• Coerced confessions, fabricated evidence, and the collapse of due process
• How the Maguire Seven were wrongly accused through flawed forensic science
• Years of imprisonment, family devastation, and psychological trauma
• The investigative journalism and legal persistence that exposed the truth
• What the cases revealed about policing, forensic reliability, and state accountability
A sobering examination of how panic and prejudice can override justice — and how these cases permanently reshaped public trust in the British criminal justice system.