Former IRA bomber says Gerry Adams was senior figure in organisation

Former Sinn Féin leader being sued by three men injured in IRA bombings in 1976 and 1996 A convicted IRA bomber has told a court that Gerry Adams was a senior figure in the organisation despite the former Sinn Féin leader’s claims to the contrary. Adams, 77, is being sued for symbolic “vindicatory” damages of £1 each by John Clark, Jonathan Ganesh and Barry Laycock, who were injured respectively in the 1973 Old Bailey bombing, and the London Docklands and Manchester bombings in 1996. Continu...

By Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent