Tributes are being paid to Gerry Conlon who died today.

The 60 year old was one of the Guildford Four who were wrongfully jailed for 15 years for the bombings of two pubs in Guildford in 1974.

He, along with Carole Richardson, Paul Hill and Paddy Armstrong, was jailed in 1974 but the convictions were quashed by the Court of Appeal in 1989.

Conlon's father Guiseppe was among the Maguire Seven, which included Conlon's aunt Annie who were arrested after being falsely accused of taking part in the same IRA bombing campaign in southern England in the mid 1970s.

Guiseppe Conlon was jailed in 1975 and died in prison five years later from ill-health.

Mr Conlon's family said in a statement: "He brought life, love, intelligence, wit and strength to our family through its darkest hours."

SDLP assembly member Alex Attwood said: "He'd given an awful lot but yet had so much more to give.

"What he learned from his time in prison and campaign for release was the importance of not only raging against his own injustice but fighting for those who had also suffered miscarriages of justice."

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams TD has expressed his shock and deep sadness at news of the death of Gerry Conlon.

"Gerry Conlon and his father Giuseppe were two of the most infamous examples of miscarriages of justice by the British political and judicial system.  Their story was told graphically in the film ‘In the name of the father’.To his family and friends I want to extend my sincere condolences,” Mr Adams said.