18/03/2014

Man Arrested Over Jean McConville Murder

A 77-year-old man has been arrested by detectives investigating the abduction and murder of Jean McConville in 1972.

A mother of 10, Jean McConville was kidnapped from her flat in the Divis area of Belfast in December 1972 and shot by the IRA.

The 37-year-old's body was only discovered when it when it was found on a beach in County Louth in the Republic of Ireland in August 2003.

A man was arrested in west Belfast today by detectives from the PSNI's Serious Crime Branch.

He has been taken to the Serious Crime Suite in Antrim for questioning.

(IT)

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