He portrayed our Tina in a way that wasn't true... now we have finally got justice for her

Family tribute to 'kind, loving, gentle soul' as husband faces life

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the brazen lorry driver lied to gardai and the public for six-and-a-half years, claiming his wife had vanished from his home on Grattan Street in Youghal, Co Cork, on March 20, 2017.

In reality Satchwell had killed her and buried her under the stairs of his home, where she lay in a two foot grave until a garda review of the case in 2021 saw the house being invasively searched - and the remains being found in October 2023.

The verdict comes after the five week trial saw lengthy media and Garda interviews with Satchwell.

Satchwell was seen repeatedly lying about his wife's whereabouts to RTE's Barry Cummins, RedFM's Neil Prendeville and others as well as to gardai where he painted Tina as a domestic abuser who he claimed had hit him hundreds of times over their 28 year marriage.

In those interviews, Satchwell could be seen and heard repeatedly lying that his wife Tina went missing after he said she asked him to go to Dungarvan to purchase parrot food and other bits and pieces and that she was gone with €26,000 of their savings by the time he returned.

BELT

It was only when gardai found the remains that Satchwell admitted following his re-arrest on October 12, 2023, that he had buried her beneath the stairs - and began to tell Gardai a brand new story in which claimed he defended himself against his wife.

Satchwell claimed that Tina "flew" at him with a chisel on the morning of March 20, 2017, that he fell backwards onto the ground and that in the process of holding her off him, he held the belt of her dressing gown against her throat and she went limp.

He claimed to gardai that it all happened in a "flash", and that his wife died on top of him amid the struggle.

He claimed he then panicked, left his wife dead on the floor and went to Dungarvan in an attempt to purchase roses to bury her with.