Brian McDermott was a 10-year-old schoolboy who disappeared in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1973.
[1] He failed to return to his home on Well Street in the lower Woodstock Road area of Cregagh, Belfast.
[1] A week after he went missing, the River Lagan was lowered and a sack containing some of his remains was found.
[1] In 1982, a possible link between the death of Brian McDermott and the abuse scandal at Kincora Boys' Home was discussed by Jim Prior, Michael Havers, senior civil servant Sir William Bourne, and Quintin Hogg,[2][3] who at the time was the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and the Lord Chancellor.
[4] He changed his name by deed poll to avoid the stigma of being a suspect in his brother's murder.