Jane Donaldson, daughter of the murdered British agent Denis Donaldson, was prevented from giving evidence during Gerry Adams’s defamation legal action against the BBC.
Without the jury present, Ms Donaldson told Mr Justice Alexander Owens her family has an “open mind” regarding who is responsible for her father’s killing but does not believe the Real IRA’s claim to it.
The Real IRA claimed responsibility for Mr Donaldson’s murder three years after his killing.
On Friday, a jury found the BBC defamed Mr Adams by publishing a claim in 2016 that the former Sinn Féin leader gave the go-ahead for the Provisional IRA to kill Mr Donaldson in Glenties, Co Donegal, in 2006. The…