Sinn Fein Leader Gerry Adams Detained Over Notorious 1972 Murder – 1 May 2014

RT logoNorthern Ireland police have detained and questioned Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams in connection with the 1972 abduction and murder of Jean McConville by the IRA, his party said.

McConville, a widowed mother of 10, was abducted from her home in west Belfast and shot by the IRA amid fierce sectarian violence in Northern Ireland. She was wrongly accused of being an informant.

Adams, 65, said in a statement that he was “innocent of any part” of McConville’s death, Reuters reported. Her body was recovered from a beach in County Louth in 2003.

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