Family of 'disappeared' teen hopes for breakthrough

The family of a teenager abducted, murdered and secretly buried by the IRA hoped their meeting with Ian Paisley today would help secure the return of his body and those of the rest of the North's disappeared.

Family of 'disappeared' teen hopes for breakthrough

The family of a teenager abducted, murdered and secretly buried by the IRA hoped their meeting with Ian Paisley today would help secure the return of his body and those of the rest of the North's disappeared.

Oliver McVeigh, whose 17-year-old brother Columba from Donaghmore in Co Tyrone was kidnapped and killed by the IRA, was commenting as his 82-year-old mother Vera prepared to meet the Democratic Unionist leader at a location near Dungannon.

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