McConville case arrest based on Boston interview

The case against a veteran republican, 77, charged in connection with the IRA murder of mother-of-10 Jean McConville is based on an interview he allegedly gave to researchers at a US college, a court has heard.

The claim was made as Ivor Bell was refused bail and remanded in custody by a district judge in Belfast accused of aiding and abetting in the murder as well as membership of the IRA.

The Boston College interviews included claims about the murder of Mrs McConville, who was abducted by the IRA at her home at Divis Flats, Belfast, in 1972, shot dead, and then secretly buried.