SECRET interviews with convicted Old Bailey car bomber Dolours Price have been handed over to detectives.

Officers probing the death and disappearance of the Belfast mother-of-10 Jean McConville flew to the United States for the Boston College tapes.

Price, who died in January aged 62, was an unrepentant republican hardliner who became a bitter critic of Sinn Fein when the party endorsed the Good Friday Agreement and encouraged the IRA to give up its weapons.

She clashed with party leader Gerry Adams over her allegations that he had been her IRA Officer Commanding during the early 1970s.

Price was convicted and jailed along with her sister Marian for the 1973 attack on London's Old Bailey courts in which one man died.