Corbett’s brother: Killers should face death penalty

The American father and daughter convicted of the murder of Limerick man Jason Corbett should have been tried for first-degree murder and faced the death penalty, the eldest brother of the deceased has said.

Molly Martens, aged 33, and her father Thomas Martens, aged 67, a former FBI agent, were convicted of Mr Corbett’s second-degree murder by a jury last week after a month-long trial.

Mr Corbett, a father of two, was beaten to death with a paving stone, which was on his wife’s nightstand in their bedroom, and an aluminium baseball bat in his home in Panther Creek Court, Wallburg, North Carolina, in the early hours of August 2, 2015.