RUC releases man arrested in connection with missing boys

The RUC has released the man arrested yesterday on suspicion of murdering two schoolboys who disappeared in west Belfast 27 years ago.

The 67-year-old man was sent back to Maghaberry Prison, where he is serving a sentence for sex offences.

The RUC is continuing to search for the bodies of 13-year-old John Rodgers and 11-year-old Thomas Spence in two houses in the Rodney Drive area of Belfast.

The pair disappeared on November 26th, 1974.