IRA chief ‘Big’ Bobby Storey arrested over murder of Jean McConville

THE IRA’S director of intelligence ‘Big’ Bobby Storey has been arrested over the murder of Jean McConville.

Convicted terrorist Storey, one of Gerry Adams’s trusted right hand men,  is also the Northern Chairperson of Sinn Féin.

The 58-year-old was detained at his west Belfast home this morning by detectives from the PSNI’s Terrorist Investigation Unit (TIU).

Storey has been taken to Antrim Serious Crime Suite for questioning about his involvement in the murder.

At the time of the killing Storey, then aged 16, was believed to have been a member of na Fianna Eireann, the IRA’s junior wing.

Mrs McConville, 37, a widow and mother of 10, was abducted in December 1972 from her flat in the Divis area of west Belfast and shot by the IRA.

Her body was recovered from a beach in County Louth in 2003.

Storey is one of the leading figures in the IRA.

In the mid-1990s he ran a top secret IRA spy ring in Belfast targeting judges, police officers, prison warders and senior civil servants for assassination.

He was later charged with having the personal details of the Lord Chief Justice for Northern Ireland.

But amazingly, the charges were thrown out due to a technicality on his bill of indictment.