A church congregation were told how the McConville family “were let down by everyone” during the funeral of Thomas ‘Tucker’ McConville, the son of Jean McConville who was secretly buried during the Troubles.
Ivor Bell wins legal battle to overturn conviction for assisting Gerry Adams attempt to escape jail Veteran republican Ivor Bell. Picture By Hugh Russell 19 May, 2021 14:50
The former Long Kesh/Maze prison
A VETERAN republican has won his legal battle to overturn a conviction for assisting in Gerry Adams attempt to escape from jail.
Senior judges in Belfast granted 84-year-old Ivor Bell s appeal against being found guilty of aiding the former Sinn Féin President s bid to break out of the Maze Prison during the 1970s.
The decision was based on a Supreme Court ruling that Mr Adams had been unlawfully detained.