After 16 years of waiting, an apology at last for the Guildford Four I had not heard, but thank you for bringing the story to the forefront. I can not imagine losing 15 years of my life falsely imprisoned at the hands of the police. It was one of the most notorious miscarriages of justice in British legal history. Three Belfast men and an English woman spent 15 years in prison after police fabricated confessions for the IRA bombing of the Horse and Groom pub in Guildford in 1974. But even after their convictions were quashed in 1989, Gerry Conlon, Paul Hill, Paddy Armstrong and Carole Richardson, had spoken of the clinging stigma and the black hole of post-traumatic stress. Some felt there was a whispering campaign in the corridors of power that they had been freed on a technicality and a "cloud of suspicion" remained. Yesterday, 16 years after their release, and following years of campaigning by the moderate nationalist SDLP, Tony Blair said sorry for the miscarriage of justice in a TV recording from his Commons office. The public apology to both the Guildford Four and the Maguire Seven, who were wrongly imprisoned over the Guildford attack and other 1974 bombings in Woolwich, south-east London, followed pressure from the Irish prime minister, Bertie Ahern, in a meeting last week and a petition of 10,000 signatures. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/feb/10/northernireland.northernireland