Just after midday, Gerry Adams stood down from the witness box and took a seat at the front of Court 24 to watch a video montage of archived news and current affairs programmes. The footage about the former Sinn Féin president and the IRA’s campaign of violence was compiled by lawyers for the BBC and came with a health warning from the trial judge.  Mr Justice Alex Owens told the jury the material could be considered as evidence of the former Sinn Féin president’s reputation, but not as a means of proving the truth of what was said. All of…

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