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Republican Ivor Bell found not guilty of soliciting murder of Jean McConville

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Five of Jean McConville’s surviving children were at Belfast Crown Court today.

Ivor Bell leaving the Belfast Magistrates' Court in 2016, aged 79. Image: PA Images Ivor Bell leaving the Belfast Magistrates' Court in 2016, aged 79. Image: PA Images VETERAN REPUBLICAN IVOR Bell has been cleared of soliciting the murder of Jean McConville in 1972, after a trial which heard a claim that Gerry Adams recommended her secret burial.

Five of Jean McConville’s surviving children were at Belfast Crown Court today as a jury of four women and eight men found Bell not guilty of encouraging her murder. “As a result of some legal rulings which have been made over the last two days there is now no evidence that the prosecution can put before you to support the case it was putting against Mr Bell,” he said.

“For 20 years the IRA denied they had anything to do with her murder and disappearance and they only admitted it when it suited them,” the family said.

 

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