The killer, Peadar Phair, what whom she briefly lived and against whom she was taking out legal protection, sounds like a horrible man. According to the
Irish Mirror:

A former colleague said: "He was a bad b*****d, a lunatic. They were only going out for about a year.

"She must have realised what he was like and dumped him to get away from him. They split up around Christmas.

"He had a history of it. Everyone knew what he was like. He was a coward. He would've tried to bully the boys in work.

"He was a know-it-all but he was a coward behind it all.

"We used to call him the wife beater. He did time in jail for that."

"He left a woman in a really bad way a few years ago and I remember him being sentenced to about six months."

Brave Conor [Concepta's son, who has Down's Syndrome and is a well-known bodhran player locally] was able to raise the alarm and call for help after Phair turned up uninvited to the family home at Maguiresbridge.