PSNI granted additional 48 hours to question Gerry Adams

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The PSNI has been granted an additional 48 hours to continue questioning Gerry Adams in relation to the abduction and murder of mother-of-ten Jean McConville.

The Sinn Féin President and Louth TD has been in police custody since he turned up by appointment at Antrim PSNI station on Wednesday and was arrested.

Mr Adams has always vehemently denied allegations by former republican colleagues that he ordered the murder of Mrs McConville, who was wrongly suspected of being an informer to the British army.

Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has accused the British government and elements of the PSNI of "pursuing a negative and destructive political agenda".