Experts searching for the body of one of the IRA’s victims have received a map that could provide vital clues, it was revealed today.
There was renewed optimism in the hunt for the remains of Charlie Armstrong (57), who disappeared from his home in Co Armagh, Northern Ireland, in August 1981.
The fresh information was sent anonymously and indicated a previously unsearched area of the Irish Republic’s borderland in Co Monaghan where the victim could be buried.
Mr Armstrong’s daughter Anna McShane said it was important the sender contacted the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains.
“I would appeal, from the bottom of my heart and on behalf of my mother Kathleen, for the person who sent the map to contact the commission,” she said. “All we want is to bring daddy home for the last time, give him a Christian burial and let us have a grave to visit and grieve.”
The father-of-five from Crossmaglen went missing on his way to Mass. He is one of “The Disappeared” who is believed to have been murdered by the IRA and secretly buried during the conflict.
Several locations have already been searched near Carrickmacross, not far from the border with Northern Ireland.
The Disappeared confidential telephone number is 00800-55585500.
PA