Gardai are investigating whether tragic mother-of-two Lisa Thompson may have inadvertently let her killer into her home.
We have learned that officers are probing whether Ms Thompson, 52, knew her killer, and may have invited them into her home in Ballymun, north Dublin, before they stabbed her 12 times in a frenzied attack, sometime before Tuesday.
A post-mortem examination completed by the State Pathologist yesterday found Ms Thompson died from stab injuries.