Special Report: Family waited seven years for justice - and doesn't want others to face same ordeal

Olivia Dunlea perished in a house fire in a Cork estate in February 2013. Yet it was only this year that the final appeal by her murderer, Darren Murphy, was dismissed in court. It has been a tortuous period for her family, writes Liz Dunphy

Olivia Dunlea’s sisters, Anne and Amanda, with their mother Ann in 2018. Picture: Michael Mac Sweeney/Provision

The sister of a devoted playschool teacher and mum who was stabbed six times in her bed before her duvet was set on fire as she lay there paralysed from her injuries has called for changes to the justice system after the killer dragged them through the courts for seven years.

Olivia Dunlea, 36, an adored mum of three, was viciously slain by her then-partner of less than three months, Darren Murphy, 42, at her home in Passage West, Co. Cork, on February 17, 2013.