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Disappeared service at Stormont

Kathleen Armstrong, wife of Charlie Armstrong lays a wreath at Stormont
Kathleen Armstrong, wife of Charlie Armstrong lays a wreath at Stormont

Families of Northern Ireland's disappeared have held a service on All Souls' Day at Stormont.

Charlie Armstrong was abducted 27 years ago on his way to Mass in Crossmaglen on a Sunday morning in 1981.

His daughter Anna McShane said her family just want to be able to give him a Christian burial.

"There are people we know and meet every day that know something, and it's those people that we're actually begging now to come forward," she said.

"We want them to finally realise that we're not looking for any kind of retaliation. If they come to me and said I'm the one who was the cause of it, I'd feel sorry for them.

"I would still put my arm around them and say thank you for coming to me and thank them for any information. We just want to find his body, to bring peace and closure to this family."

Charlie Armstrong is believed to have been murdered by the IRA and secretly buried. A number of searches have failed to locate his body.

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