IRA will shoot me if I talk to police, says McConville son
The son of a woman abducted and murdered by the IRA says he will not tell police who he believes was responsible, in case he is shot.
Michael McConville was speaking as
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Jean McConville disappeared from west Belfast in 1972. Mr Adams was arrested at Antrim police station last night.
Mr McConville said he recognised local faces when the gang arrived to drag his mother away screaming in terror, but he said if he told police, he would be labelled an informer by dissident republicans.
“Everybody thinks that the IRA has gone away but they have not,” he said.
“If we tell, we will be shot.”
He noted that suspected dissident republicans opposed to the peace process shot a man dead in west Belfast last week.
The First Minister addressed the perceived threat to Mr McConville.
He said: “We have had a lot of words from Sinn Fein about how wrong what happened to Mrs McConville was.
“Here is an opportunity. This is the same republican movement of which they are a part, that the people who carried out this act were a part.
“Let them meet Michael McConville, let Michael McConville impart to them the names of those who were involved.
“I challenge Sinn Féin that they should do their civic duty and responsibility of handing over those names to the PSNI (Police Service of Northern Ireland).”
