Son seeks justice for slain father 15 years on

The son of a pensioner who froze to death after being bound and gagged in his home while desperately seeking help is still searching for justice 15 years after the murder that shocked the nation.

Billy Fitzmaurice broke down and called his father Eddie “one of the good guys” as he made an emotional appeal on RTÉ’s Cracking Crime tonight for information on the killer of his 83-year-old father.

In the wake of the murder of the Blaine brothers last week in Castlebar, the episode tonight highlights one of the country’s most horrific murders of a pensioner in the neighbouring town of Charlestown, Co Mayo, in 1998.