NORTHERN IRELAND
RTE News
A “courageous” victims’ campaigner orphaned and allegedly abused in Northern Ireland following the murder of his mother Jean McConville has died.
Billy McConville, 50, died at a hospice where he had been living after being diagnosed with cancer.
The Belfast father-of-four described suffering sexual and physical harm in residential care as a child at Rubane House in Co Down, run by brothers from the De La Salle religious order.
Mrs McConville, a mother-of-ten, was abducted, shot and secretly buried by the IRA at the height of the conflict when her son was aged six and he was put into care shortly afterwards.
It was one of the most notorious killings of the Troubles and claims that she was an informer for the British were later dismissed.
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