Jason Corbett’s children remained stoic as details of life in their former home were aired and examined
Molly Martens rocked forward and back in her seat before the judge, wiping her eyes, as a recording she had made was played in court in North Carolina on Thursday. Photograph: Walt Unks/Winston-Salem Journal/PoolThis was, by any yardstick, the most excruciating day of testimony for Jack and Sarah Corbett Lynch, who had to sit impassively while life inside their home at 160 Panther Creek Court in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, was dissected and displayed with forensic coldness.
This will form part of Molly and Tom Martens’s case that they should be given a reduced sentence or probation on the extreme mitigating grounds that they believed Jason had killed his first wife, Mags Fitzpatrick, who died of an ashtma attack in 2006, when Jack was two and Sarah was 12 weeks old. An Irish coroner found Ms Fitzpatrick died of asphyxiation following a severe asthma attack that left her unable to breath.
“I work 12 hours a day and I couldn’t have dinner with my family because you ignored me,” Jason, who was the manager of a multinational packaging company in North Carolina, says, his voice seething with frustration. Later in the recording he pounds his fists on the table with anger. “I’m sure I don’t have the luxury to choose not to work because I don’t have anyone else who is going to provide. You have the luxury to cancel your work .
This appears to reinforce claims made by the children that Jason was controlling and would check Molly’s phone, call her repeatedly, and get jealous when she wore revealing clothing. The children had told Tyler that Jason pushed and hit Molly, and that he was angry and controlling over small things, like lights being left on, or bills not being paid on time.
After hearing the tapes, the court then heard how the children had recanted their allegations about their father hitting Molly, once they returned to live in Ireland with their aunt Tracey and her husband, Dave. They said they were coached and forced to make these false allegations by the Martens, with whom they were living. The children had made fresh statements to detectives in 2021 again recanting their allegations and saying how much they loved and missed their father.
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