‘A single person’ could unlock secret to location of Disappeared remains

One person may hold vital clues to several families’ decades-long quest to find the bodies of loved ones abducted, murdered and secretly buried by the IRA.

As forensic archaeologists surveyed remote bogland in Oristown, near Kells in Co Meath, in renewed efforts to find the remains of newly-wed Brendan Megraw, who vanished in April 1978, investigators said local knowledge could be key.

The 23-year-old from west Belfast and 16 other people were abducted, killed and clandestinely buried by republicans during the Troubles and became known as the Disappeared.