Statement by Jim Allister:
“In contrast with the countless innocent victims of the IRA, who never enjoyed a right of appeal against the summary decision of the IRA to murder them, Gerry Adams benefits from appeal to the British legal system whose judges the Provos brutally murdered. No right to life for IRA victims, but a right of appeal for Adams!
“Justice in any court this side of eternity is still denied for the vast majority of IRA victims. Today my thoughts are with those victims who will doubtless feel aggrieved at the failure of the state to fulfil its responsibility to them while facilitating Adams, a man who continues to justify and defend the murder of their loved ones”.