Michael McConville remembers as an 11-year-old going “berserk” at a juvenile court in Belfast in May 1973, six months after his mother Jean was abducted, murdered and disappeared. The case against 82-year-old Bell rested on his allegation, as recorded in the Boston tapes, of how he, Adams and McClure effectively decided Jean McConville’s fate at a meeting late at night on the Falls Road late into 1972. The IRA told us they never raided our flat, never in their lives. Nearly all photographs of the McConville family were lost when the children were put into care. This surviving photograph features Jean McConville with her husband Arthur, and children Archie, Robert and Helen.

Source: The Irish Times October 29, 2019 02:48 UTC