Ex-Sinn Féin leader wins fight to overturn two convictions for attempting to escape from Maze prison
The former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams was interned illegally at the height of Northern Ireland’s Troubles because the wrong minister approved his detention order, the supreme court has ruled.
His two convictions for attempting to escape from the Maze prison in the 1970s have also been quashed by the UK’s highest court.
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