IRA’s burial of ‘informers’ unjustified: McGuinness

The IRA’s killing and burying of victims accused of passing information to the British security services during the Northern conflict was cruel and unjustified, said Martin McGuinness.

The senior Sinn Féin member appealed for anybody with information about undiscovered remains of the Disappeared to give it to somebody in authority.

Jean McConville, a widowed mother-of-10, was among 17 people abducted, killed and secretly buried by republican paramilitaries during the Troubles. Members of the IRA claimed some of the victims had “informed” on their activities to the authorities.