A former RUC Special Branch officer has told the civil trial of Gerry Adams in London that intelligence reports stated that he “was a senior member of the IRA Army Council and the de facto leader of the IRA”.
The former Louth TD and West Belfast MP is being sued in a civil action in the High Court by three victims of separate IRA bomb attacks in 1973 and 1996 who claim he was directly responsible.
The former Sinn Féin leader was heckled on his way into the Royal Courts of Justice this morning by two protesters.
The fourth day of the case heard evidence from one of two witnesses who have been granted anonymity, and he gave his evidence from behind a screen…