An expert witness for Mr Adams’s legal team said the BBC presented no secondary source, documentation or verifying evidence to support the “serious, criminal” allegation made in the programme against Mr Adams that he had ordered the killing of British agent Denis Donaldson in 2006
Gerry Adams arriving at the High Court in Dublin. Photo: Collins
The BBC had “multiple, authoritative, credible, confidential” sources corroborating information provided by an anonymous contributor to a documentary at the centre of a defamation action brought by Gerry Adams, lawyers for the broadcaster have told the High Court in Dublin.
The former Sinn Féin leader claims the BBC Spotlight programme and related article published in 2016 defamed him by falsely accusing him of sanctioning the Provisional IRA’s killing of British agent Denis Donaldson in 2006. The BBC denies it defamed Mr Adams.
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