Body verified as that of IRA murder victim

JEAN McCONVILLE, the Belfast mother of 10 who was abducted and murdered by the IRA in 1972, can finally be laid to rest after gardaí said yesterday that the remains found last August have been confirmed in DNA tests as hers.

The remains of Mrs McConville, one of the so-called ‘disappeared’, were found accidentally by walkers in an area known as Shelling Hill near Carlingford, Co Louth.

Searches had been carried out in the area for Mrs McConville’s body since 1999, a source of great trauma to her family and friends.