BBC reporter denies excluding ‘unhelpful comments’ about Adams claim

Spotlight reporter Jennifer O’Leary at the High Court in Dublin, where former Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams is bringing a legal action against the BBC over allegations about the murder of an MI5 spy. Claims were made in a BBC Northern Ireland Spotlight programme in 2016 over who sanctioned the killing of British spy Denis Donaldson. Picture date: Wednesday May 14, 2025. - (PA Wire)

A BBC reporter has denied excluding “unhelpful comments” and contradictions to the claim that Gerry Adams sanctioned the killing of a spy.

Speaking in a Dublin court, Jennifer O’Leary said she took the “utmost care and responsibility” with the allegation that Mr Adams had sanctioned the killing of former Sinn Fein official Denis Donaldson.