Raid was political plot, says Adams

SINN FÉIN president Gerry Adams claimed yesterday that the raid on his party’s Stormont offices last week was a plot to throw the peace process into crisis.

Mr Adams said the roots of the current crisis could be traced to the police chief who made the decision to raid the party's office.

He said there were still elements in the new Police Force of Northern Ireland who were trying to escalate division within unionism over the peace process.