The Court of Appeal quashes escape convictions and rules Alex Maskey and wife Elizabeth were both unlawfully detained during interment in the 1970s.
Stormont speaker Alex Maskey and his wife Elizabeth's historic convictions for trying to escape from prison are to be quashed.
On 9 August 1971, Prime Minister Brian Faulkner used the Special Powers Act to introduce internment without trial for those suspected of being involved in violence during the early stages of the Troubles.
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