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 mainland

Gerry 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 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 the 1973 Old Bailey bombing, and the London Docklands and Manchester bombings in 1996.