Killer targeted widow because she lived alone, court hears

ANNE CORCORAN’s killer told gardaí that he had never met his victim, but he had targeted her because she was living alone and on Sunday, January 18, last year, he decided he would rob the 60-year-old widow her at her Co Cork farmhouse.

Oliver Hayes, aged 49, of Clancool Terrace, Bandon, broke down in tears when he admitted that the woman for whom hundreds of people were searching was dead and that he had killed her.

After initially denying involvement during questioning on February 5, 2009, the admissions came when gardaí showed him CCTV footage of him withdrawing her money from ATMs.