Inquiry into IRA murders supported by victim’s daughter despite lack of prosecutions

Shauna Moreland in Belfast in 2015. She says Operation Kenova ‘showed that my mum mattered and she was not just a statistic’. Photograph: Paul McErlane

A woman whose mother was abducted and murdered by the IRA has insisted that a lack of prosecutions does not mean Operation Kenova has failed victims, ahead of its interim report being released on Friday.

Shauna Moreland, whose mother Caroline’s body was found in Northern Ireland in July 1994, said: “If these cases had been properly investigated at the time there could have been prosecutions.