Gerry Adams was interned illegally during Troubles, supreme court told

Wrong minister approved order, court hears during appeal to overturn convictions for escaping Maze prison in 70sThe former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams was interned illegally at the height of Northern Ireland’s Troubles because the wrong minister approved his detention order, the supreme court in London has been told.In an attempt to overturn two criminal convictions for escaping from the Maze prison in 1973 and 1974, lawyers for the 71-year-old are challenging the way he was origin