RUC search resumes for boys missing 27 years

The families of two Belfast schoolchildren who have been missing for 27 years should be given the time and space to deal with a police search of houses, it was claimed today.

The families of two Belfast schoolchildren who have been missing for 27 years should be given the time and space to deal with a RUC search of houses, it was claimed today.

As the RUC resumed their search for John Rodgers and Thomas Spence, who disappeared in west Belfast in November 1974, SDLP councillor Margaret Walsh appealed for their families to be allowed the space to cope with the RUC operation.