Three men who sued the former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams over three Irish Republican Army bombings in Britain have withdrawn their lawsuit, their lawyers told the high court in London.
Adams, who became the president of Sinn Féin in 1983 when it was the IRA’s political wing, was for many years the best-known face of the movement seeking to end British rule in Northern Ireland.
He had long faced accusations that he was a member of the Provisional IRA, including from former members of the paramilitary group, which he has always denied.
The three claimants who were injured in three IRA bombings in the 1970s and 1990s were seeking a finding on the balance of probabilities that Adams was personally liable for the bombings as a senior member of the IRA.
But, after a civil trial at which Adams gave evidence over two days, the claimants’ lawyer, Anne Studd, said on Friday that “the proceedings will be discontinued”.