Gardaí suspected criminality in Tina Satchwell case weeks after disappearance, court told

Retired sergeant tells murder trial of Richard Satchwell that suspicions mounted as weeks passed with no contact from Tina

Richard Satchwell (centre) leaving the District Court in Cashel, Co Tipperary, after being charged in connection with the murder of his wife Tina Satchwell. Picture: Brian Lawless/PA

Gardaí "strongly suspected" that something “criminal” had happened to missing Cork woman Tina Satchwell in the weeks after her disappearance, the murder trial of her husband has heard.

Murder accused Richard Satchwell had reported to gardaí that his wife had voluntarily left the family home at 3 Grattan St., Youghal, on March 20, 2017.