In December 1972, Ms McConville was kidnapped from her home in the Divis Flats in West Belfast and murdered by the IRA.
At the time, rumours spread through the block of flats that the Protestant mother of 10 had been seen providing comfort to a wounded British soldier.After she was kidnapped, it was claimed she was an informer - something that the Northern Ireland Police Ombudsman concluded was not true after an official investigation.
After the murder of their mother, the McConville children were orphaned - their father having died from cancer in 1971. It was only in 1999 that the IRA admitted responsibility for Ms McConville’s death and four-years later her body was found on Shelling Hill Beach in County Louth.“People think… it happened a long time ago but this is every day of our lives - this is what people have to understand,” Mr McConville said.Billy, Thomas, Michael, Arthur and Robert, the sons of Jean McConville, in 2000. Picture by: Joe Dunne/Photocall Ireland.
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