NORTHERN IRELAND
UTV
The son of Disappeared victim Jean McConville has waived his right to anonymity to tell the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry about his time at Rubane House.
The boys home in Kircubbin, Co Down, ran by the De La Salle order, is currently being investigated by the abuse Inquiry.
Mrs McConville, a 37-year-old widow and mother of 10 children, was abducted in December 1972 from her flat in the Divis area of west Belfast and shot by the IRA, becoming one of the Disappeared. Her body was recovered on a beach in Co Louth in August 2003.
Her disappearance left the children orphaned, and caused the break-up of the McConville family.
Six-year-old Billy McConville ended up at Rubane House in Kircubbin.
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