FORMER SINN FÉIN president Gerry Adams has won a UK Supreme Court appeal against two historic convictions for attempting to escape from the Maze Prison in the 1970s.
Adams attempted to escape from the Maze, also known as Long Kesh internment camp, on Christmas Eve 1973 and again in July 1974. The second escape bid in July 1974 was described as an “elaborate scheme” which involved the kidnap of a man who bore a “striking resemblance” to Adams from a bus stop in west Belfast.
At a hearing in November, Adams’ barrister Sean Doran QC said his client’s appeal had been “prompted by the obtaining of materials under the 30-year rule”, under which government papers are made public. Doran continued that there was also a note of a meeting in July 1974 held by then prime minister Howard Wilson, which he said “confirms that the secretary of state himself did not personally consider the appellant’s case”.
They havnt gone away you know
good stuff
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I didn’t think he was ever in the Maze.
Why is he recognising the jurisdiction of a UK Court? These convictions are among the very few things that GerryAdamsSF has to be truly proud of.
They havnt gone away you know
Lock him up Donald
He was a POW. Soldiers are obligated by conscience and cause to try to make every effort to escape. Why is this still being discussed? Wipe the convictions.
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