The niece of Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams has welcomed the 16-year jail sentence handed down to her sex abuser father, but insisted it was still too little, too late. Liam Adams, the younger brother of the republican leader, was told by a judge he had committed the greatest breach of trust imaginable when he raped and sexually abused his daughter Aine Dahlstrom when she was a child. But the 58-year-old, from west Belfast, showed no visible sign of remorse as judge Corinne Philpott passed sentence in Belfast Crown Court, shaking his head occasionally during the hearing and then smiling and laughing as he was led from the dock. The former youth worker was found guilty last month of a string...
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