IRA insists victim was British informer
The Irish Republican Army insisted Saturday that a Belfast mother of 10 it abducted, killed and secretly buried in 1972 was a British army agent and therefore a legitimate target. The IRA statement came a day after Northern Ireland’s police complaints official, Nuala O’Loan, said her detectives found no evidence that widow Jean McConville ever worked as an informer for either the police or British army. Full Story