Níl ábhar an phodchraolta seo feiliúnach d’éisteoirí atá faoi 18 mbliana d’aois ~ The contents of this podcast is not suitable for listeners under the age of 18.

I mí Feabhra 2013, dúnmharaíodh Olivia Dunlea, 36 bliain d’aois as Corcaigh, go brúidiúil faoi lámha a buachaill, Darren Murphy, gan iad ag dul amach le chéile ach ar feadh ocht seachtaine.

Sháigh Murphy Olivia, máthair le triúr páiste agus múinteoir naíonra, sé huaire agus í ina luí ina leaba sa Phasáiste. Ansinchuir Murphy an teach trí thine agus theith sé ón láthair. I measc trí thriail agus dhá éisteacht achomhairc, thóg sé seacht mbliana ar theaghlach Olivia ceartas a bhaint amach do a dúnmharú.

Saneagrán seo labharíonn léiritheoir an sraith Sorcha Nic Eochagáin leis an an abhcóide Pat J Barrett. Labhríonn siad faoin dúnmharú uafásach seo, an próiseas fada agus cásta a bhí ag an teaghlach agus an stáit sna cúirteanna agus chearta na bpríosúnach agus an teaglach an íospartha ag iarraidh tuiscint a fháil ar céard a ciallaíonn le téarma saol.

In February 2013, 36 year old Olivia Dunlea from Cork was brutally murdered by her boyfriend of just 8 weeks, Darren Murphy. Olivia, a mother of three and a playschool teacher, was stabbed six times as she lay in her bed in Passage West byMurphy, who then set fire to the house and fled the scene. With three trials and two appeal hearings, it took Olivia's family 7 years to get justice for hermurder.

In this episode the series producer Sorcha Nic Eochagáin speaks with the barrister Pat J Barrett. They talk about this terrible murder, the long and difficult process that the family and the state had in the courts and prisoners' rights and the victim's family trying to understand what a life sentence means.

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