‘The day they took my brother they took my mother too’

The mother of a teenager murdered and buried by the IRA was left mentally tortured as she tried to convince herself he had run away to marry, an inquest has heard.

Belfast student Kevin McKee, 17, was abducted in the city in October 1972. He was never seen alive by his family again.

His remains were found in bogland at Coughalstown, Wilkinstown, Co Meath, on June 25, 2015, along with another of the Disappeared victims of the Troubles — 25-year-old Seamus Wright.