Court hears Jason Corbett’s injuries showed 'how terrified Molly Martens and her father were'

Judge at sentencing hearing had to warn a courtroom after there were gasps of horror after the claim by an expert in intimate partner violence

Molly Martens arriving at Davidson County Superior Court in Lexington on Tuesday for the sentencing hearing for the death of Jason Corbett. 

A judge was forced to warn a courtroom after there were gasps of horror when an expert in “intimate partner violence” described Jason Corbett’s injuries as “a measure of how terrified Molly Martens and her father were” on the night he was beaten to death.

Scott Hampton is the director of Ending the Violence, an organisation based in Dover, New Hampshire, that provides education classes to perpetrators of domestic and sexual violence.