A defamation case taken by Gerry Adams, against the BBC, will be heard in the High Court today.
The broadcaster aired a programme in 2016 claiming the former Sinn Fein President had sanctioned the killing of Denis Donaldson in Donegal in 2006.
Donaldson, who was a senior figure in Sinn Fein and the IRA, was shot a year after revealing he’d worked as a ‘double agent’ for the British intelligence since the 1980s.
Crime Correspondent with the Belfast Telegraph, Allison Morris, says Gerry Adams denies any involvement in Denis Donaldson’s murder:
