Coalville man found guilty of murdering wife

Former Coalville man Richard Satchwell has been found guilty of murdering his wife at their home. The 58-year-old truck driver had denied the murder of Tina Satchwell on a date between March

19 and March 20 2017 at their home in Co Cork, Ireland. He did not react as the unanimous verdict was read to the Central Criminal Court, in Dublin, at around 12.23pm today (Friday, May

30). The jury had been deliberating for a total of nine hours and 28 minutes since Tuesday afternoon. Relatives of Mrs Satchwell wept as the guilty verdict was returned. Satchwell sat with

his head in his hand as the jury entered the courtroom Gardai discovered Mrs Satchwell's skeletal remains buried under the stairs of their home in October 2023, six years after he

reported her missing, after a search of the property in Grattan Street. Her badly decomposed body was wrapped in a soiled sheet and covered with black plastic. She was wearing pyjamas with a

dressing gown, and the belt of the gown was wrapped around her. State pathologist Dr Margaret Bolster said she could not determine the exact cause of death because of the advanced state of

decomposition. During Garda interviews, Satchwell said that on the morning of March 20 2017, he found his wife standing at the bottom of the stairs with a chisel in her hand, scraping at the

plasterboard. He claimed that she came at him with the chisel, and he fell back onto the floor. The killer claimed that Mrs Satchwell tried to stab him multiple times with the chisel, and

that he grabbed her clothing and restrained her by putting the belt of the robe against her neck. Satchwell said that in a very short period of time, she went limp and fell into his arms. He

then placed her body on the couch in the living room, before moving her to the chest freezer and then burying her under the stairs. It was more than six years before gardai discovered her

body. The jury had been deliberating the verdicts for a total of nine hours and 28 minutes since Tuesday afternoon. Jurors heard from more than 50 witnesses over the five-week trial, many of

whom were gardai involved in the investigation. Satchwell will be sentenced on June 4. WE ARE NOW BRINGING YOU THE LATEST UPDATES ON WHATSAPP FIRST