I lock all my doors inside. Every single door is locked at night time,” she said.
Speaking about the attack, Ms Lynch said: He kicked me into the car, he bit me on my bare skin and he tried choking me, I was black and blue - he pulled lumps of hair out of my head.
Sinead O’Leary told her horrifying story of being stabbed 20 times by Peter Whelan - a man who murdered her friend Nichola Sweeney after breaking into her family home as the two were getting ready for a night out on April 27, 2002.
Ms O’Leary said she had to work hard to “regain peace” after the traumatising attack that happened almost 19 years ago.