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07/08/2001
Relatives search for remains of murdered woman
The family of a Belfast woman murdered by the IRA 30 years ago have travelled to County Louth to search for her remains.
They say this is the last chance they have of finding any trace of her body.
Jean McConville is believed to have been buried by her killers on Templetown beach. A number of excavations were carried out at the time but they failed to uncover any traces of her body.
Mrs McConville was murdered in 1972 after she came to the aid of a British soldier who had been shot and wounded outside her door.
The government offered £10,000 compensation to her family which they described as “an insult”.
The decision to award compensation followed the abandonment of a second round of searches for the remains of a number of those who have come to be known as “the disappeared”.
The bodies of many of those who went missing or were murdered in the 1970s are believed to have been secretly buried in the Irish Republic. (CD)
They say this is the last chance they have of finding any trace of her body.
Jean McConville is believed to have been buried by her killers on Templetown beach. A number of excavations were carried out at the time but they failed to uncover any traces of her body.
Mrs McConville was murdered in 1972 after she came to the aid of a British soldier who had been shot and wounded outside her door.
The government offered £10,000 compensation to her family which they described as “an insult”.
The decision to award compensation followed the abandonment of a second round of searches for the remains of a number of those who have come to be known as “the disappeared”.
The bodies of many of those who went missing or were murdered in the 1970s are believed to have been secretly buried in the Irish Republic. (CD)
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