Mr. Michael McConville:

I want to make a point about my mother's case. The IRA gave information that our mother was buried on Templetown beach. My mother was eventually found on Shelling Hill beach. When they gave the examples of where they went on the beach in Templetown beach, to be fair to the IRA, Shelling Hill beach was similar.

They say that they walked across a wee stream. There is a stream on Templetown beach. There is also a stream on Shelling Hill beach. The mistake was made by the IRA in thinking that it was on Templetown beach. In other cases, mistakes could have been made as well. For example, in 1999, when the first digs appeared down on Templetown beach, we were standing there for 50 days. We got to know the local people. They were very good to us. An elderly man came to me. He was talking away, beside Templetown beach. He told me that I should ask them to go and dig on Shelling Hill beach because the IRA had two caravans on Templetown beach when they were on the run from the North. He said that he could not see them burying my mother on their own doorstep when they were on the run from the North. That man knew it was the other beach that they were talking about. I am trying to explain some similar things that could happen in the other cases too.