Adams arrest: ‘It should never have happened to us’

Jean McConville, who was abducted and murdered by the IRA, squealed as she was dragged away from her family, her son said.

Adams arrest: ‘It should never have happened to us’

The mother of 10 was taken down the stairs of a high-rise block of flats, bundled into a van, and never seen again, wrongly suspected of informing to the security forces in republican west Belfast during the height of the conflict.

Michael McConville said her 80th birthday would have been approaching this year.

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