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Fresh appeal for information about Robert Nairac

Captain Robert Nairac. Picture from Alan Lewis, Photopress
Captain Robert Nairac. Picture from Alan Lewis, Photopress Captain Robert Nairac. Picture from Alan Lewis, Photopress

THE commission searching for the bodies of the Disappeared have made a fresh appeal about the remains of British army captain Robert Nairac.

The officer was abducted from a pub in Dromintee, south Armagh, and taken across the border to a field at Ravensdale in Co Louth in 1977.

His body has never been found.

Geoff Knupfer, chief investigator for The Commission for the Location of Victims Remains, said it has the least information on Capt Nairac.

"The Disappeared came from a range of backgrounds, but what they all have in common is that they have grieving families who had to bear the additional terrible burden of years of not knowing where their loved one was buried," he said.

He added: "In the past year or so we have recovered the remains of three of the Disappeared - two of whom had been missing for over 40 years.

"We were able to do that because we were given the information necessary to put us in the right place.

"We need that information to help find Robert Nairac," he said.

The Disappeared were people murdered and secretly buried by republicans during the Troubles.

Between 1972 and 2003, a total of 17 people are believed to have been killed.

In 2007 former IRA man, deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, appealed for information about the whereabouts of Captain Nairac's remains.