Gerry Adams appeals 1975 convictions for Maze escape attempts

Gerry Adams was among hundreds of men interned without trial in 1972.The Sinn Féin president, Gerry Adams, has launched a legal attempt to overturn two convictions connected to a planned IRA jail break at the height of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.Adams’s lawyers argued at the court of appeal in Belfast on Tuesday that the 1975 convictions for earlier escape attempts from the Maze prison, then known as Long Kesh, should be quashed.