MR JAMES Livingstone has confirmed that he is taking legal action against the Government over the Garda investigation into the murder of his wife at their Co Dublin home in 1992.
Mrs Grace Livingstone was shot dead at the family home in Malahide on December 7th, 1992. She was killed by a shotgun blast.
No one has been charged with the murder.
Mr Livingstone said yesterday that he and members of his family were suing the Minister for Justice and the Attorney General over the investigation.
He confirmed that High Court papers had been lodged about a year ago.
Mr Livingstone, a Revenue inspector, claimed publicly after the murder that gardai suspected him of the crime, a suggestion he dismissed as "preposterous".
He was questioned by gardai for two days three months after the murder.
Asked if he was seeking compensation for the way the case was handled Mr Livingstone said yesterday that he did not want to comment publicly on the matter other than to confirm that he, his son, Conor, and daughter, Tara, had instituted legal proceedings.
Mrs Livingstone is believed to have been assaulted in the kitchen of the house before being shot with the shotgun owned by her husband, which was later found in the garden.
Mr Livingstone told investigating officers that he returned home from work and found her body, bound with sticky tape, in a bedroom. He ran to a neighbour's house to raise the alarm and then untied his wife in an attempt to find a pulse.
Garda forensic experts later found a fingerprint on the tape which did not match anyone known to have been in contact with the body.