Adams in crash probe witness plea

GERRY ADAMS yesterday appealed to witnesses to a fatal road accident in west Belfast involving a police Land Rover to help Northern Ireland’s Police Ombudsman establish what exactly happened.

The Sinn Féin president urged witnesses to co-operate with an investigation by Nuala O’Loan’s office following concerns in his constituency about the death on Saturday of 29-year-old Jim McMenamin.

Mr McMenamin was struck by a Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Land Rover, responding to an emergency, on the Upper Springfield Road at around 1am.