Broke Dutchman killed his Irish wife

After killing his wife with blows to the head followed by strangulation her Dutch husband placed a cushion under her and pushed a rosary beads into her hands, his trial in the Netherlands has heard.

Grandmother of 11 and mother of eight Martina O’Brien Viguurs, a native of Rathkeale, Co Limerick, who had also lived in Cork before moving to the Netherlands, had planned to travel to Ireland on November 9 last with the man to continue viewing houses for sale.

But when they should have boarded their flight from Amsterdam to Ireland she was already dead. Martina was slain by her husband of four years Arnold Viguurs who had never bought their tickets because he admitted he “couldn’t afford them”.