Tina's dead.. but he still wants to control her

Fiend is serving life - but he craves power over the wife he murdered, says victim's niece

- BY PAUL HEALY Crime Correspondent

MURDERER Richard Satchwell is still trying to control his dead wife by holding on to her belongings, her niece has revealed.

Monster Satchwell, 58, is serving a life sentence for the March 2017 murder of his wife Tina - who he killed and then hid under the stairs of his home in Youghal, Co Cork, for six-and-a-half years, all the while maintaining the lie that she was missing.

Now speaking for the first time as the killer launches a desperate appeal, Tina's heartbroken niece Sarah Howard revealed her fight to get Tina's belongings off her killer - who she discovered still has a right to them.

"His whole thing was about controlling her in the marriage and now he's trying to have that control even when she's gone. He has all of her stuff still and we as a family have no right to them. He remains her next of kin and so he has a right to everything" Sarah revealed.

Even though Satchwell is now locked up in Limerick Prison, he remains the owner of the grim gravesite at number 3 Grattan Street in Youghal where many of Tina's possessions, such as clothes and jewellery, once lay.

Tina's family have no interest in the home but have appealed through solicitors for ownership of Tina's belongings, which remain Richard's property.

"The house doesn't bother me like, I don't think anyone would want that house. It's more her personal belongings. We're just not entitled to anything," Sarah told us.

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"I haven't even been down and past the house since she's been missing. I just can't bring myself to walk past it, never mind have it.

"We still don't have an entitlement to any of her personal belongings - like her photos or some jewellery.

"We've been through solicitors and everything. Now there is a process we've been told to go through but we've basically been told like it's not going to happen. Everything is his."