CBS interview with Gerry Adams accuser sought by Northern Ireland police

British authorities launch new effort in U.S. to prove Adams was in IRA

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He said: “Clearly this case is developing into a major assault on privacy. Not content with assailing academic rights, the PSNI are now set to lay siege to the media as well. Where will this stop?

“It is clear that the PSNI is substituting the efforts of journalists for basic detective work.”

A spokesperson for the PSNI confirmed on Friday that they are making new moves in the McConville case.

The spokesperson said: “We are pursuing all lines of inquiry in relation to the murder of Jean McConville.”

The Guardian reveals that this includes the most up to date interview with Dolours Price, the former Old Bailey bomber who now lives in North Dublin.

CBS also confirmed that it had received a letter from the PSNI about the Price interview. A spokesman said: “We are looking into the issues raised in the letter.”

The Sunday Telegraph declined to comment but it is understood the PSNI has been in contact with the paper.

Price freely admits that she drove alleged informer McConville to her death in 1972.

She confessed: “I drove away Jean McConville. I don’t know who gave the instructions to execute her. Obviously it was decided between the General Headquarters staff and the people in Belfast. Gerry Adams would have been part of that negotiation as to what was to happen to her.

“I had a call one night and Adams was in a house down the Falls Road and she’d been arrested by Cumann [IRA’s female unit] women and held for a couple of days. She got into my car and as far as she was concerned she was being taken away by the Legion of Mary to a place of safety.

“It wasn’t my decision to disappear her, thank God. All I had to do was drive her from Belfast to Dundalk. I even got her fish and chips and cigarettes before I left her.”

In the Sunday Telegraph interview, Price was unrepentant about the disappearance and death of McConville.

She added: “You don’t deserve to die if you are an unpleasant person as she was but you do deserve to die if you are an informer, I do believe that. Particularly in a war, that is the Republican way.”

McConville’s family have welcomed the latest PSNI move.

Son-in-law Seamus McKendry told the Guardian: “Helen [Jean McConville’s oldest daughter] and I would be very much in favour of this move by the police.

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