Netflix’s Making a Murder was compulsive viewing for shining a light on alleged injustice and now a show in Balham is set to do the same for one of Britain’s most famous wrongful convictions.
The Guildford Four were convicted of pub bombings which they did not commit in Guildford and Woolwich and spent 15 years in prison before they were exonerated.
Using letters sent by Paul Hill, one of the four, to his mother and family during his imprisonment, journalist Martin McNamara has created Your Ever Loving, which will be performed at Theatre N16, above The Bedford, in Balham from April 18 to May 5.
Seven people were killed in the bombings at the Horse and Groom and The Seven Stars in Guildford on October 5, 1974, and at the Kings Arms in Woolwich a month later.
Hill, Paddy Armstrong, Gerry Conlon and Carole Richardson were all convicted of the Guildford attacks, while Hill and Armstrong were also convicted for the Woolwich one.
They confessed but retracted their statements, claiming they had been subjected to police violence, intimidation and threats.
Hill, who was 21 at the time, was beaten in custody and transferred between prisons without notice or ‘ghosted’ more than 50 times, spending five years in solitary confinement.
Your Ever Loving charts his fight to prove his innocence. Tickets cost £12 or £10 concessions. Go to ticketsource.co.uk/theatren16
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