| Jean McConville with two of her children shortly before her disappearance. |
My hero:
Jean McConville
by Amanda Foreman
30 October 2010
J
ean McConville died in December 1972, but her mutilated body remained hidden for 30 years. It was only in 2003 that her skeleton was accidentally unearthed by beachcombers in County Louth, Ireland. She is now buried in St Paul's Catholic Church, Belfast. But even now, almost 40 years on, no one has been brought to justice for her torture and murder. This even though we know who did it and why.