Murder of Jean McConville

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In December 1972, Jean McConville, a 38‑year‑old mother of ten, was kidnapped from her home at Divis flats in Belfast, Northern Ireland by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). She was murdered and secretly buried in County Louth in the Republic of Ireland. The IRA accused her of passing information to British forces. In 1999, the IRA acknowledged that it had killed McConville and eight others of the "Disappeared". It alleged she had been passing information about republicans to the British Army in exchange for money and that a transmitter had been found in her flat. A report by the Police Ombudsman found no evidence for this or other rumours. Before the Troubles, the IRA had a policy of killing informers within its own ranks. From the start of the conflict, the term "informer" was also used for civilians who were suspected of providing information on paramilitary organisations to the security forces. Other Irish republican and loyalist paramilitaries also carried out such killings...

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