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>The following is based on information given to us by >an Irish community activist and campaigner in England. > >Just to let you know Frank Johnson - one of the >longest-serving miscarriages of justice cases (spent >26 years in prison) died on Friday last. The police >and Crown Prosecution Service had the information >which would have secured his release - but kept it >hidden for over 20 years. A statement from Mr Sheridan >before he died in hospital after being doused in >petrol and set alight in his shop. >Smart - an ex-British soldier - threw the petrol on Mr >sheridan and set him alight - and Jack Tierney - the >notorious agent-provocateur (Angry Brigade case)was >the look-out. >The next day the British media reported that Mr >Sheridan had been fire-bombed because he refused to >give funds to the IRA. The case happened at a time >when a number of agent-provocateur were working trying >to frame innocent members of the Irish community - >(e.g) the Hackney Bomb Trial - when a British agent >brought guns to a shop in Mare St., East London. Later >the case collapsed at the Old Bailey. >Many in the Irish community believed that the >fire-bombing of Mr Sheridan was a dirty tricks British >Intelligence operation because of the involvement of >Smart and Tierney. >Billy Power of the Birmingham Six on his release was >instrumental in estblishing the Frank Johnson Campaign >- which led to his eventual release. The Irish in >Britain Representation Group was the first >organisation to take up the case and campaigned around >it and supported Frank unti his release. > >Frank, from Clonmel in Tipperary, was released in June >2002 >and was aged 72 at the time of his death in London. >After 26 years in prison, he would have been still >adjusting to his freedom. >He is yet another victim of British injustice.

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