Police are seeking access to all recordings Mr McIntyre carried out with Old Bailey bomber Dolours Price.

BBC: Boston College tapes: 'writer under no increased threat'

In media interviews, Dolours Price claimed to have been the person who drove Mrs McConville to her death.

BBC: Ex-IRA woman Dolours Price is found dead in Dublin

The PSNI had been attempting to obtain the transcripts of tapes recorded with Dolours Price, who died in January.

BBC: The tapes are being held at Boston College

Dolours Price was born in 1951 and was originally from Belfast.

BBC: Ex-IRA woman Dolours Price's funeral takes place

Police are seeking access to his interviews with Dolours Price.

BBC: Boston College tapes: 'writer not making big profit'

Following a newspaper report on Dolours Price, in which she allegedly claimed to have been involved in the disappearances, the PSNI began proceedings in the US courts to obtain her interviews, and any others relating to the disappeared.

BBC: The tapes are being held at Boston College

The BBC's Ireland correspondent Andy Martin said that those close to Boston College's Belfast Project say that the death of Dolours Price means that her recorded interviews will now simply be handed over as a matter of course.

BBC: Ex-IRA woman Dolours Price is found dead in Dublin