Daughter and father will receive credit for 44 months already served 2015 killing of Limerick man
Molly Martens and her father Tom have been sentenced to between seven and 30 additional months in jail after pleading guilty to manslaughter charges over the killing of her husband, Limerick man Jason Corbett in August 2015.
Ms Martens and her father already spent more than three years in prison after being convicted of the second degree murder of Mr Corbett in August 2015.‘Meticulously responsible’ Tom Martens portrayed in court as a loving father and grandfather who ‘follows the rules rigidly’ Molly Martens did not contest a charge of voluntary manslaughter which the judge said represented a form of guilty plea.On foot of the plea agreement, there was a range of sentence options open to the judge which spanned from nine years in prison to the two being released on supervised probation if the court found there had been extreme mitigating factors involved.
The defendants claimed that following a row, Mr Corbett had grabbed his wife around her neck and threatened to kill her. They claimed that Thomas Martens had gone to his daughter’s bedroom after hearing a commotion. Health authorities in Ireland maintained that Margaret Corbett had died following an asthma attack in 2006.
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