Interview with boy ‘procured under coercive circumstances’

Lawyers for a US woman who, along with her father is accused of murdering her Irish husband, have moved to block prosecutors from submitting an interview with the dead man’s son as trial evidence.

Limerick-born Jason Corbett was found dead in the early hours of August 2 in the home he shared with Molly Martens Corbett in Panther Creek, Wallburg, North Carolina.

Ms Martens Corbett, 32, and Thomas Martens, 66, have been charged with second-degree murder and manslaughter. Defence for the pair claim a video statement recorded last May by Mr Corbett’s son Jack in the Limerick home of Mr Corbett’s sister “is hearsay, was obtained under coercive circumstances, and is not sufficiently trustworthy to be admissible”.