NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
By Staff Reporter
July 26 2017
The brother of victims’ campaigner Billy McConville, who died from cancer on Sunday, has said that the family now need the time and space to “quietly grieve” for him.
Mr McConville (50) suffered sexual and physical harm as an orphan at Rubane House in Co Down, where he was sent after the IRA murdered his mother, Jean McConville.
The Belfast man had recently been living at a hospice while bravely coping with cancer.
In recent days he had called on politicians to secure justice and compensation for abuse survivors, dragging himself from his hospital bed to support a Belfast rally.
Speaking before Billy’s funeral today, his brother Michael said: “Billy lived out his last days in a media spotlight campaigning for justice for the victims of institutional sexual and physical abuse, a cause he felt passionately about.
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