Claimants Drop Lawsuit Against Gerry Adams Over IRA Bombings, Adams Calls it 'Show Trial'
Three victims of IRA bombings have withdrawn their lawsuit against former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams, who subsequently criticized the UK civil case as verging on a "show trial."
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Claimants drop lawsuit against Gerry Adams over IRA bombings
Three people were suing ex-Sinn Féin leader for liability over IRA bombings in UK that left them injured Three victims of IRA bombings who sued Gerry Adams alleging he was a member of the paramilitary group and culpable for the attacks have withdrawn their lawsuit on the last day of the civil trial. John Clark, Jonathan Ganesh and Barry Laycock, who were injured respectively in the 1973 Old Bailey bombing and the 1996 London Docklands and Manchester bombings, were seeking symbolic “vindicator...
By Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent
Read full article →Gerry Adams says withdrawn UK civil case against him ‘verged on show trial’
Lawyers representing the three victims of Provisional IRA bombings who took the case said it was dropped after an “extraordinary intervention by the court”.
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