On today’s episode of The BelTel podcast, Sharon O’Neill speaks to Des Henderson, the director of a compelling new documentary which has shed new light on the mysterious disappearance of FIVE children at the height of the Troubles.

Only the body of one was recovered, the dismembered remains of Brian McDermott found soon after he went missing in 1973.

All these tragic cases remain unsolved and unresolved.

Did sexual predators take advantage of the mayhem for their own twisted perversion?

More than half a century later few loved ones are alive.

But The BelTel has interviewed the mother of one of the lost boys – her story is heart-wrenching.

The lost boys of Belfast

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