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AP Analysis: Belfast IRA charge on Adams unlikely

By Shawn Pogatchnik
Published May 5, 2014 2:04pm ET
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AP Analysis: Belfast IRA charge on Adams unlikely
Sinn Fein party leader Gerry Adams speaks to the media in West Belfast, Northern Ireland, Sunday May 4, 2014. Adams was released without charge Sunday after five days of police questioning over his alleged involvement in a decades-old Irish Republican Army killing, an event that has driven a dangerous wedge into Northern Ireland's unity government. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison) | Peter Morrison

BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — A police evidence file documenting Gerry Adams’ Irish Republican Army career has been delivered to British state prosecutors in Belfast, but experts say the chances of the Sinn Fein leader being charged are slim on legal, political and particularly national-security grounds.

Adams, 65, walked free Sunday after five days of police interrogation and declared his innocence in the unsolved 1972 abduction, slaying and secret burial of a Belfast mother of 10, Jean McConville.

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