Families call on IRA to disclose location of bodies

The families of victims of the Troubles in Northern Ireland have appealed to the IRA to help locate those bodies still missing.

Following the discovery last Tuesday of a skeleton believed to be that of missing west Belfast woman Jean McConville, her son Michael called on the Provisionals to provide more precise information about the location of graves of other people abducted, killed and buried by the organisation.

“These families need a Christian burial. There are two families in particular - the Armstrong family and the Evans family. No one has even had the decency of turning around and saying that they have murdered these people and whether they have buried them or not.”

In 1999 the IRA supplied information to a commission set up by the British and Irish governments about the whereabouts of nine victims' bodies. So far only three of the victims have been located.