By David Blevins, Ireland Correspondent
Liam Adams, a younger brother of the Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, has been found guilty of sexually abusing his daughter nearly 40 years ago.
The 58-year-old, from Bernagh Drive in Belfast, had denied all 10 charges – three of rape, three of gross indecency and four of indecent assault.
The offences were alleged to have occurred between March 1977 and March 1983 when his daughter Aine was aged between four and nine years old.
During a recorded interview, Aine Adams - who has waived her right to anonymity - told a detective that her mother and Uncle Gerry had confronted her father but he denied any wrongdoing.
Jurors heard that she and her mother reported the alleged abuse but then retracted their complaint because police seemed more interested in her father and his brother.
Aine's mother, Sarah Campbell, told her ex-husband's trial that she had learned of the alleged abuse following a disagreement with her daughter in December 1986.
Aine Adams arriving at Belfast Crown Court She said a note found in her living room read: "Mummy, this is why I am like this. My daddy made me sleep with him."
Liam Adams said he had initially denied being confronted by his brother because he had been brought up not to talk to police about Gerry Adams.
He told the court he had been a community youth worker for 20 years and there had not been one single complaint made about him.
Aine's younger sister, Sinead Rosbotham, alleged that her father had confessed the abuse to her saying: "We will face our demons in our own time."
But Claire Smith, a daughter from his second marriage, and her younger sister, who can't be named for legal reasons, said they had never been abused.
The jury of nine men and three women at Belfast Crown Court had been told to decide the case on the evidence and not on rumour, gossip or speculation.
Bespectacled Adams, who was wearing a grey suit, cream shirt and blue tie, showed no emotion as the guilty verdicts were returned.
Remanding him in custody Judge Corinne Philpott said: "Take him down."
In a statement read out by a police officer outside the court, Ms Adams said she could finally begin to move on after a long and hard road to achieve justice.
"I do not see this verdict as a victory or a celebration as it has taken its toll and has caused hurt, heartache and anguish for all those involved.
"I can now begin my life at 40 and lay to rest the memory of the five-year-old girl who was abused," she said.
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