‘IRA victim’s’ body identified

DNA tests yesterday confirmed that the body pulled from a canal in the North was suspected IRA murder victim Gareth O’Connor.

His badly decomposed remains were found in a car on Saturday - two years after he vanished.

The father of two is believed to have been abducted after leaving his home in Armagh City in May 2003.

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