Killer ‘showed total lack of remorse’

OLIVER HAYES, who was jailed for life yesterday, showed a total lack of remorse for the woman he bludgeoned to death and he was given concurrent 10-year sentences for the five withdrawals he made from her bank as she lay dead at his home.

Mr Justice Paul Carney jailed Hayes of Clancool Terrace, Bandon, Co Cork, for life for murdering Ann Corcoran in January last year with a 10-year concurrent sentence for falsely imprisoning, five 10-year concurrent sentences for the withdrawals of cash using her bank card and another 10-year concurrent sentence for attempting to get money out of a second bank.

Mr Justice Carney said: “Apart from the gratuitous violence involved, one of the most chilling features of this case was the accused’s total lack of genuine remorse over anything other than the suffering caused to Ann Corcoran’s dogs… As recently as last week he said under cross-examination he was as much a victim as the unfortunate woman he bludgeoned to death.”