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Charles Armstrong was a 54-year-old father-of-five who went missing in Crossmaglen while walking to Mass in 1981; his car was later found in Dundalk, County Louth. [19] The IRA denied any involvement in his disappearance at the time. Armstrong's family began a fresh, private search for his remains in October 2003. [24]
Operation Flavius (also referred to as the Gibraltar killings) was a military operation in which three members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) were shot dead by the British Special Air Service (SAS) in Gibraltar on 6 March 1988. [1] [2] The trio were believed to be planning a car bomb attack on British military personnel in ...
Around 100 IRA and INLA members were then arrested in Derry on his evidence, of whom 35 were charged with terrorist offences. [14] In November, Gilmour's father was abducted by the IRA. He was held in secret in an unknown location for almost a year. [15] Gilmour was then sent to Cyprus and then Newcastle by the RUC.
Two days later, a severed pair of legs belonging to Quek were discovered at a disused toilet in a mosque at Aljunied, and the police arrested 44-year-old Sim Joo Keow, Quek's sister-in-law who was the last person together with Quek before she went missing. Sim later confessed that she strangled Quek after they argued over a S$2,000 debt which ...
Two people in Kentucky have been arrested in connection with an alleged murder after authorities said they believed they found the body of a 4-year-old girl who was reported missing this week but ...
Kentucky State Police made additional arrests Tuesday during the search for an 8-month-old baby who reportedly hasn’t been seen for more than a month.. Police arrested the baby’s grandparents ...
Also in the 1980s, the Provisional IRA were involved in the kidnapping and ransom of businessmen Gaelen Weston, Ben Dunne and Don Tidey. Activities such as these were linked to the IRA's fund-raising. Gardaí estimate that the Provisional IRA got up to £1.5 million from these activities. [217]
Jean McConville (née Murray; 7 May 1934 – 1 December 1972) [1] was a woman from Belfast, Northern Ireland, who was kidnapped and murdered by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and secretly buried in County Louth in the Republic of Ireland in 1972 after being falsely accused by the IRA of passing information to British forces.