Jury in Gerry Adams libel case expected to begin deliberations next week

Former Sinn Féin leader claims a BBC programme and a related article published in 2016 defamed him by falsely accusing him of sanctioning the killing of a British agent in 2006

Former Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams outside the High Court in Dublin. File Picture: Brian Lawless/PA

The jury in Gerry Adams’s High Court defamation action against the BBC is expected to begin deliberations next week.

Mr Justice Alexander Owens told the jury of seven men and five women that at least nine of them must be in agreement in coming to a decision in the case.