Secret Boston Tapes Led To Gerry Adams Arrest

Gerry Adams' arrest over the murder of widowed mother of 10 Jean McConville stems from allegations made by republicans in interviews they gave to a US college. Back in 2001, Boston College launched an oral history project. Academics, historians and journalists decided to record interviews with people who had been very actively involved in the Troubles in Northern Ireland. But when one of the interviewees, former IRA commander in Belfast Brendan Hughes, died in 2008 it emerged he had alleged Mr Adams was a senior IRA leader during the Troubles and had ordered Mrs McConville's killing.