Corbett trial: Molly Martens and father jailed for at least 20 years

“Jason was unarmed, he was struck when he was lying down in the middle of the night. Two people battered him until he was dead and then battered him even more.”

Those were the words of Tracey Lynch just minutes after Molly and Thomas Martens were sent to prison for at least 20 years for the gruesome killing of her brother Jason Corbett.

The jury in the case took just over three hours to decide unanimously that the beating the Limerick man received at the hands of his 33-year-old wife Molly and her father Thomas, aged 67, using a paving brick and a metal baseball bat, constituted second degree murder.