Police apologise unreservedly to McConville family

Police in the North today apologised to an IRA murder victim’s family after a new report revealed it took them 20 years to carry out a proper investigation.

Police apologise unreservedly to McConville family

Police in the North today apologised to an IRA murder victim’s family after a new report revealed it took them 20 years to carry out a proper investigation.

Despite intelligence that mother-of-ten Jean McConville – one of the so-called 'Disappeared' – was still alive for some time after she was abducted from her west Belfast home in December 1972, Police Ombudsman Nuala O’Loan has delivered a damning assessment of how the inquiry was handled.

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