The son of Mrs Jean McConville, who was abducted and murdered by the IRA 30 years ago, has issued a fresh appeal for information on the whereabouts of her body.
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Her son Michael, who was an 11-year-old schoolboy when his mother was taken, said he forgave her killers but could not forget what they had done.
"I forgive them for what they did but I will never forget the hurt and anger we have suffered and I will never forget them taking my mother out that night, the distress that was on my mum's face," he said.
"I want those who know where my body is if they have any conscience at all to come forward and let us know where my mother's body is."
He denied that his mother had spied for the security forces, saying she was murdered for helping a wounded soldier.
"They said she was an informer but I know and the rest of the family know that was untrue," he said. "My father had died 10 months earlier and my mother had a mental breakdown. She was in no fit state to gather information on anybody," he told the BBC Radio Ulster Sunday Sequenceprogramme a day after a special mass in his mother's memory at St Peter's Cathedral, west Belfast.
Mother-of-10 Mrs McConville, one of the so-called "disappeared", was taken from her west Belfast home in December 7, 1972.
Her body has never been found, although there were extensive excavations of a beach in Co Louth.