NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
By Suzanne Breen
July 24 2017
A son of IRA murder victim Jean McConville, who was abused in a care home after he was orphaned, has died of cancer.
Billy McConville passed away in the NI Hospice days after appealing to politicians to secure justice for institutional child abuse survivors.
His funeral will take place on Wednesday at St Paul’s Church on the Falls Road. He leaves behind four children and is survived by eight brothers and sisters.
Fellow abuse survivor, Margaret McGuckin, said it was damning that he had died before a scheme to secure compensation for victims had been set up. Political deadlock at Stormont had halted progress.
She described him as a “courageous and unselfish man” who had inspired those who met him.
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