Mick Clifford: A woman murdered in her own bedroom — and how the State treated her husband

Gardaí investigating the murder of Grace Livingstone in 1992 determined that her husband Jim Livingstone was the perpetrator, based not on the assembly of evidence but on their hunch or a failure in the immediate aftermath to identify any other suspect, writes Mick Clifford

In 1992, Grace Livingstone, 56, was murdered in her bedroom with a single shotgun blast to the back of her head. No one has ever been charged.

Jim Livingstone invited us into his home in Malahide. This was about six years after his wife Grace had been found dead on December 7, 1992, lying on her bed, shot in the back of her head, her hands and feet bound, masking tape over her mouth.

I was there with Liam Hayes, the former Co Meath Gaelic footballer and media entrepreneur. He had made contact with Livingstone, asked him would he have a chat with us with a view to doing something in the newspaper that Hayes was editing, Ireland on Sunday.