Gardaí tell murder trial how they found Tina Satchwell's remains under the stairs of her home

Officers told the court about finding her body during a second search of 3 Grattan St in Youghal in 2023

Richard Satchwell (pictured) reported Ms Satchwell missing to gardaí on March 24, 2017, four days after she was last seen. File picture

Black plastic sheeting buried 64cm beneath the sitting room floor was the first indication of the “clandestine burial of human remains” at 3 Grattan Street, Youghal.

The body of Tina Satchwell, aged 45, who had lived in that home before she vanished more than six years earlier, was wrapped in this plastic, her body placed “quite deep” in sandy soil under the staircase. Her husband, Richard Satchwell, has pleaded not guilty to her murder at their East Cork home in 2017.