The son of a woman murdered by the IRA has said he wants justice as police continue to question Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams in connection with the 1972 killing.
Michael McConville, who was just 11 when his mother Jean was snatched by a gang in front of him at the family's Belfast home, said he was glad to see the police doing their job following the high-profile arrest.
He said he knew who had killed his mother but would never tell police for fear either he or his children would be shot by those who took Mrs McConville more than 40 years ago.
The Sinn Fein president agreed to go to Antrim police station on Wednesday, where he was arrested and questioned for four hours. Officers continue to question him.
Police have until Thursday evening to decide whether to release Mr Adams, charge him or apply for more time to question him.
Jean McConville's remains were found thirty years after she was killed Mr Adams, 65, has strongly denied suggestions made by former republican colleagues that he had a role in ordering the death of Mrs McConville.
She is the most high profile of the "disappeared" - those who were abducted and killed during the Troubles.
The 37-year-old was killed by the Irish Republican Army after being wrongly accused of spying for the British Army.
Her remains were finally discovered in 2003 on a beach 50 miles from her home. No one has ever been charged with the widow's murder.
Speaking on Radio 4's Today programme, Mr McConville said he been warned to stay silent about who had taken her.
He said: "I never told anyone who it was, I still haven't told anyone who it is. I do know the names of the people ... I have never told anyone."
He added: "If I told the police now, a thing, me or one of my family members or one of my children would get shot by these people.
"Everybody thinks this has all gone away, it hasn't gone away."
Mrs McConville was taken in front of her children in Belfast In a statement released after his arrest, Mr Adams, a former MP for West Belfast who now sits in the Irish parliament, said: "I believe that the killing of Jean McConville and the secret burial of her body was wrong and a grievous injustice to her and her family.
"Well publicised, malicious allegations have been made against me. I reject these.
"While I have never disassociated myself from the IRA and I never will, I am innocent of any part in the abduction, killing or burial of Mrs McConville."
Sinn Fein's deputy leader Mary Lou McDonald has said the arrest was "politically motivated" and designed to damage both the party and Mr Adams.
The charge has been denied by David Cameron and the Irish Taoiseach Enda Kenny.
Police reopened the case after a US court ruled researchers at Boston College should hand over interviews for a history project recorded with former paramilitary republicans about the Troubles to the Police Service of Northern Ireland.
Veteran republican Ivor Bell, 77, was charged in March with aiding and abetting the murder. Five others have been detained and questioned.
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