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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent

Former IRA bomber says Gerry Adams was senior figure in organisation

Gerry Adams outside the high court in London.
The former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams denies having been a member of the IRA. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA

A convicted IRA bomber has told a court that Gerry Adams was a senior figure in the organisation despite the former Sinn Féin leader’s claims to the contrary.

Adams, 77, is being sued for symbolic “vindicatory” damages of £1 each by John Clark, Jonathan Ganesh and Barry Laycock, who were injured in the 1973 Old Bailey bombing, and the London Docklands and Manchester bombings in 1996.

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