ICLVR Begins 2-Acre Search for Seamus Maguire, One of 4 Disappeared Still Missing
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Updated · BBC.com · May 26
ICLVR Begins 2-Acre Search for Seamus Maguire, One of 4 Disappeared Still Missing
14 articles · Updated · BBC.com · May 26
A search starts Tuesday at Derryclone in County Antrim for the remains of Seamus Maguire, 29, marking the ICLVR's first operation in his case.
PSNI information led the commission to conclude there is enough credible evidence that Maguire returned from Manchester and was killed and secretly buried in the Aghagallon-Derryclone area in 1976.
Eamonn Henry said the two-acre farmland search has no fixed end date and stressed investigators still lack vital information on the burial site despite launching the dig.
Maguire was added to the Disappeared list only in 2022 after decades of uncertainty over when he vanished; the ICLVR has recovered 13 of the 17 victims' remains so far.
His family said they hope to bury him with their parents, while Hilary Benn urged anyone with information to come forward as four of the Disappeared remain missing.
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