Family to sue over kidnap probe failures

The family of a woman murdered and secretly buried by the IRA is to sue the North’s security forces over alleged failures in the handling of the case.

Jean McConville, 38, was abducted by paramilitaries in Belfast in 1972 and interrogated on suspicion of being an informant.

Killed and subsequently buried by her captors across the border, the remains of the mother of 10 lay undiscovered beneath a beach in Co Louth until they were located in 2003.