Gerry Adams ‘as culpable as those who planted IRA bombs’, high court hears
Former Sinn Féin leader being sued for symbolic £1 each by three victims of Troubles-era bombings on UK mainlandGerry Adams is as culpable for IRA bombings on the UK mainland as the individuals who planted and detonated the devices, the high court has heard at the beginning of a civil trial.The...
<p>Former Sinn Féin leader being sued for symbolic £1 each by three victims of Troubles-era bombings on UK mainland</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/gerryadams">Gerry Adams</a> is as culpable for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/ira">IRA</a> bombings on the UK mainland as the individuals who planted and detonated the devices, the high court has heard at the beginning of a civil trial.</p><p>The former Sinn Féin leader is being sued for symbolic “vindicatory” damages of £1 each by John Clark, Jonathan Ganesh and Barry Laycock, who were injured respectively in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2009/mar/09/archive-1973-london-ira-bombs">the 1973 Old Bailey bombing</a>, and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/from-the-archive-blog/2011/jun/06/guardian190-docklands-bonbing-1996">the London Docklands</a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/1996/jun/17/northernireland.christopherelliott">Manchester bombings</a> in 1996.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/09/gerry-adams-ira-bombs-high-court-civil-trial-irish-troubles">Continue reading...</a>
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