Mr. Michael McConville:

I am the son of Jean McConville. My mother was taken away in 1972. I was only 11 years of age at the time. I witnessed my mother being taken away. I know the importance of getting the body back. I would like to see the remaining bodies coming back to their loved ones. It is nice to have a grave to go to to visit your loved one. It is the right of everyone to have a Christian burial, not to be put in a bog or anywhere else. It is important that all of the others get their loved ones' bodies back.

The 31 years of a nightmare that we had as children and as we grew up into adults not knowing where our mother was buried or where she was and all the stories that we were told by different people saying that she had run off with people and so on were the things that we had to live with. It was thrown in our faces.

It is important that the Irish and British Governments do all they can to get the rest of these bodies back. When it first happened to us, I thought we were the only people it had happened to. Then I started meeting different families at WAVE and realised that we were not the only people it had happened to and that our mother was not the only person this had happened to. It is very important that everybody else gets their loved ones' bodies back. That is all I have to say.