Detectives investigating the abduction and murder of Jean McConville have arrested a 77-year-old man.
The suspect was arrested in west Belfast and has been taken to the serious crime suite at Antrim police station for questioning.
Mrs McConville, a 37-year-old widow, was abducted from her flat in the Divis area of west Belfast and shot by the IRA in December 1972.
The mother-of-ten’s body was recovered at Shelling Hill beach in North Louth in August 2003.
