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08/07/2013
Dolores Price Boston Tapes Handed Over
Tapes containing Boston College interviews with convicted IRA bomber Dolores Price have been handed over to the PSNI.
The interviews have been requested by PSNI detectives as part of the ongoing investigation into the disappearance of Jean McConville in 1972.
A mother of 10 from Belfast, Mrs McConville is one of the 'disappeared'; civilians who went missing during the Troubles and whose bodies were never discovered.
Dolores Price had formerly claimed publicly that she drove Mrs McConville to the place where she was murdered by the Provisional IRA in 1972.
She had given interviews to Boston College, who are compiling testimonies from some of the key IRA members during the '70s and '80s.
In the interests of academic research, the interviews were undertaken with a promise from Boston College that they would only be released posthumously.
Dolores Price was found dead at her home in County Dublin in January.
In April, the US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal against handing over the transcripts.
Project director, Ed Moloney, and his researcher, Anthony McIntyre, had attempted to block the handing of the tapes over to the PSNI, for fear that convictions based on the interviews would be prejudicial to subsequent research endeavours.
Mr Moloney has stated that Dolores Price did not make any claims regarding 'the disappeared' in the interviews.
Ms Price was convicted for her part in the bombing of the Old Bailey in London in 1973.
Other interviewees of Boston College include Brendan Hughes, a former IRA hunger striker who died in 2008.
(IT/CD)
The interviews have been requested by PSNI detectives as part of the ongoing investigation into the disappearance of Jean McConville in 1972.
A mother of 10 from Belfast, Mrs McConville is one of the 'disappeared'; civilians who went missing during the Troubles and whose bodies were never discovered.
Dolores Price had formerly claimed publicly that she drove Mrs McConville to the place where she was murdered by the Provisional IRA in 1972.
She had given interviews to Boston College, who are compiling testimonies from some of the key IRA members during the '70s and '80s.
In the interests of academic research, the interviews were undertaken with a promise from Boston College that they would only be released posthumously.
Dolores Price was found dead at her home in County Dublin in January.
In April, the US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal against handing over the transcripts.
Project director, Ed Moloney, and his researcher, Anthony McIntyre, had attempted to block the handing of the tapes over to the PSNI, for fear that convictions based on the interviews would be prejudicial to subsequent research endeavours.
Mr Moloney has stated that Dolores Price did not make any claims regarding 'the disappeared' in the interviews.
Ms Price was convicted for her part in the bombing of the Old Bailey in London in 1973.
Other interviewees of Boston College include Brendan Hughes, a former IRA hunger striker who died in 2008.
(IT/CD)
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