Gerry Adams appeals 1975 convictions for Maze escape attempts

Lawyers say Sinn Féin leader was unlawfully interned without trial at time of planned jail breaks
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. Related: Ho