Exhumed body does not belong to ‘Disappeared’ teen

A BODY exhumed from a cemetery in Monaghan in the long-running search for a suspected teenage IRA victim who vanished in 1975 is not one of the so-called Disappeared.

Forensic tests revealed that skeletal remains taken from a graveyard beside Urbleshanny Church, near Scotstown in Co Monaghan, are not those of Columba McVeigh, who disappeared aged 17.

A family plot was opened in June after a tip-off from a priest that there may have been a secret burial in the grave.