There may be insufficient evidence to convict Gerry Adams of involvement in the abduction, torture, murder and disappearance of mother of ten children Jean McConville, but surely the leader of the Republican Movement knows who ordered and carried out the crime, even if the IRA denied it for almost 30 years.

IN December 1972 Jean McConville, a 38-year-old widow with 10 children, was abducted, murdered and dumped in an unamrked grave by the Provisional IRA.

An inquest into the death of Belfast woman Jean McConville was adjourned today at the request of her family.

RELATIVES of IRA murder victim Jean McConville — shot in 1972 for helping a dying British soldier — were last night urged to unite around their mother’s grave.

THE IRA’s apology to families of ‘The Disappeared’, people murdered and secretly buried by the Provisionals, was rejected by victims relatives last night.