Gerry Adams tells defamation trial that BBC programme was ‘hatchet job’

Former Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams outside the High Court in Dublin, where he 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. Mr Adams has denied the allegation that he had any involvement in ordering the murder. Picture date: Wednesday April 30, 2025. - (PA Wire)

Gerry Adams has called a BBC programme in which he claims he was defamed an “attempted hatchet job” that was “full of inaccuracies”.

He said he was “astonished” when he watched the programme, aired in September 2016, and called some of the events which were detailed “bogus and wrong”.