 A seventeen-year-old from Donaghmore, County Tyrone, McVeigh disappeared in November 1975.The IRA say he had confessed to being a British Army intelligence agent who had received orders to infiltrate the IRA's ranks, but have never indicated what specific act prompted McVeigh's murder.Unsuccessful searches were carried out for the location of his body in 2003, 2011 and 2012.