Tina Satchwell- missing person case being treated as murder

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Hopefully some closure.
Ur heart would go out to her family.
Such a sad story.
Between the erratic husband and backstory.
Address being searched seems to be home.
Now we hope her family has closure.
Do hope she’s at peace.

Imagine waking up everyday in that house, birthdays, Christmas, anniversaries. All the time knowing she lay dead under the foundations.

How can he have carried on?

My guess is he wanted her there, to be close to her . He enjoyed knowing her body was there with him and it was his secret.

I’ve seen photos over the last day or so of Tina which I assume have been provided by her family. In them, she looks happy and is wearing nice clothes and make-up, although a little on the colourful/quirky side. Her family said she loved charity shops and car boot sales.

These photos seems at odds with the pictures released back in 2017, which I’d assume were provided by her husband. She looked quite different in them. There’s pictures of him from newspaper interviews holding up her photo- one is clearly a shot where she is topless/meant to look topless and it’s one of those soft-focus boudoir style pics but we only see her face and shoulder, in another she’s wearing a low-cut top and looking up at the camera in a slightly provocative way- again, we just see her upper body. Then there’s the picture used the most, a close-up of her face with very heavy make-up.

If your loved one went missing, wouldn’t you use a full-body photo so that the public have an idea of height/build of who you were asking them to look for?

It kind of only dawned on me this evening but the photos he used in 2017 made me feel quite uneasy- it’s almost like he was painting a picture of her in a particular way.

He is a creep he really is sure he painted himself as a saint and her as something she clearly was not. I hope they throw the book at him and that smug smirk has finally been wiped off his face.

I bet he is spinning another fine story for them now, as to how Tina ended up where she did. Wasn't him, he wouldn't lay a finger on her, treated her like a princess.

Off topic but did anyone read the comments from the priest that she didn't get the dignity or respect deserved of the dead, it left me scratching my head, I can kinda see what he is was trying to say, but I mean the woman was murdered in her own home by her own husband, if that wasn't the ultimate lack of respect and dignity I don't know what was.

Apparently the guards have new evidence from phone masts showing that he was in the area where they lived on the day she went missing. He had previously claimed he was away that day.
He won't escape justice this time but surely that phone location information should have been discovered 6 years ago and his lies should have triggered a forensic search of their house.

Yeah but i dont think he killed her at home nor was her body there, i say he killed her on the way home from that carboot sale and took her somewhere and left her there for a few months so nothing could be traced to the house. Sure he welomed the gardai and media and everyone into the house at all times. Then it was three months before they went back and saw that wall but did not question it because he had said there was ongoing work done and i think at some point when he was clearly out of the limelight he brought her body back and put her there thinking that was the end of it all. I am neither a detective nor anything else so just super sleuthing. Wonder what time he is in court.

From yesterday's Irish Times article
"Gardaí investigating the murder of Ms Satchwell believed that she was murdered in the house where she was found and buried a short time afterwards. They do not believe that she was murdered elsewhere and brought there or was moved from the house for a period and then reburied there."

this sounds like a huge police failure.

Good god yes a massive fuck up. Also though the brazeness of the man knowing her body was in the house and inviting the police in. Pure evil.

But surely there would have been a smell of decomposition in the house? Even under concrete?

My husband has smelt a dead body and says it is horrific - there is no way Guards wouldn't notice the smell? They thought it was him from the start - i do understand that they can't go digging up floors without a warrant or solid evidence. But wouldn't neighbours be on high alert for a smell or suspicious activity given 'everyone knew he did it'.

We may never know because he is unlikely to plead guilty and tell the world what he has done.

He has a lock up between killeagh and youghal and the Gardai have also done a search of that. Would be a good place to keep a decomposing body

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/richard-satchwell-charged-with-murder-of-his-wife-tina/a1722463331.html

He has pleaded guilty - I was not expecting that

That is a huge shock considering he has hidden it all these years.

It really is.
Could it be that he knew there was no way to get out of it? He could hardly claim someone snuck in to the house and buried her without his knowledge...
Hardly think it was an attack of conscience that made him plead guilty.

Hrs been caught so of course he pled guilty, it immediately reduces your sentence by half.

Presumably some details will emerge at an inquest. Did Tina only have one sister...a difficult day for her family After the past difficult years.

I didn't expect that either, he really thought he was convincing with his fantasy stories, I fully expected him to go down claiming his innocence.

Does the guilty admittance mean he just goes into court and the judge hands down sentence ? therefore he won't have to publicly face the murder details or his actions being discussed in court. Hopefully the judge won't take into account his admittance as a mitigating factor for a shorter sentence.

Yes and I think it does mitigate the sentence regardless but the fact he hid it for so long may also go the other way, i don't know the specific rules though maybe a lawyer knows?

On one hand it's good for the family that won't have to sit through a trial. However it really shouldn't mean that he gets a shorter sentence, I can never understand that.

Hopefully this will give the family some closure but horrible it has taken so long.

I don’t know much about Garda procedures & what they are allowed to do when investigating but I’ve felt for awhile that if you are going to commit a murder, it’s easier to get away with it in Ireland.

Look up the Joe Deacy murder. The people who were with him that night (and presumably know what happened) seem to have been allowed to say “no comment” and no further action has been taken against them.

@Decorhate listened to article about joe on rye 1 I think during August? And would have to agree with you. Seems like a cover up going on there too!