The former Sinn Féin leader sued the BBC after a 2016 report, in which a source alleged Adams sanctioned the murder of a British agent.

Former Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has won a libel suit against BBC over a claim he authorized the killing of an informant.

For years British and Irish journalists have treated Mr Adams’s denials as they would a claim that water isn’t wet. The statement is reported, but almost no one believes it. Despite thousands of references to his alleged IRA activities over the years,