Mourners told Jason Corbett had planned surprise visit to his father

As the funeral of Jason Corbett, who died in a violent domestic incident at his home in the US, took place yesterday, it emerged he had planned to make a surprise visit home to Limerick on that very day with his two children to attend the 80th birthday of his father, John Corbett.

His sister, Tracey Lynch told hundreds of mourners at the Requiem Mass at Our Lady Queen of Peace Church in Janesboro, Limerick, of the family visit he never made.

Jason died on August 2 at his home in North Carolina. Molly Martens, the former au pair he married after the death of his first wife, Margaret (Mags) Fitzpatrick, and her father, Thomas Martens, a retired FBI agent, have been the only persons questioned in connection with Mr Corbett’s violent death.