Tina Satchwell's murder 'premeditated', with 'plotting and calculated actions', trial hears

While his wife’s dead body was in the freezer in their home, Richard Satchwell looked up 'quicklime' online, court told

Richard Satchwell told gardaí he had been 'living two lives' since his wife Tina's death, going to work by day as if everything was normal and coming home to a filthy house where his 'perfect' wife’s body was decomposing in a shallow grave under their sitting room floor.

Tina Satchwell’s murder seemed “premeditated”, with “plotting” and “calculated” actions, gardaí said during an interview with her husband after her body was found buried in their sitting room.

Even after Richard Satchwell “changed his narrative” following the discovery of his wife’s remains in their East Cork home more than six years after he reported her missing, he was still “not telling full truths”, gardaí said.