Tina Satchwell told friend she loved her husband 'so much' hours before she died

Witness told gardaí he met Richard Satchwell at a car boot sale after Tina disappeared and Mr Satchwell told him Tina was violent and used to beat him and had absconded with their savings of €25,000

Tina Satchwell told friend: 'I have one man, one man only.'

“I have one man, one man only,” Tina Satchwell told a friend at a car boot sale in Cork in the hours before she was allegedly murdered by her husband.

Mrs Satchwell told John Keoghan she loved her man “so much” and she would never hurt him at a car boot sale in Carrigtwohill on March 19, 2017.

“Tina [Satchwell] said she’d never touch another man,” Mr Keoghan told the Circuit Criminal Court about her comments that day.

Richard Satchwell, 58, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of his wife, Tina Satchwell, nee Dingivan, 45, at their home on 3 Grattan St, Youghal, between March 19 and March 20, both dates inclusive.

On March 26, 2017, Mr Keoghan met Richard Satchwell at another car boot sale in Castletownroche, Co Cork.

“Tina was a street angel, house devil,” Mr Satchwell told Mr Keoghan at this car boot sale, he said.

Richard Satchwell told man he met at car boot sale that 'Tina was a street angel, house devil'.

“Richard Satchwell told me Tina used to beat him. That after the last car boot sale that I met him at, she hit him across the face that day,” he said in a Garda statement read to the court by defence barrister Brendan Grehan.

“She wouldn’t harm a child, she was a lovely person,” Mr Keoghan told the court.

Mr Satchwell was selling his wife’s clothes and Doc Marten boots at the car boot sale and some other “bits and pieces”.

Mr Keoghan knew the Satchwells from car boot sales. His wife also knew Tina from Fermoy, having grown up in a house nearby.

Tina was “a very nice person, you couldn’t meet a nicer person”, Mr Keoghan said.

“She was a well-dressed woman, used to wear expensive clothes,” he said.

Mrs Satchwell had “a good eye, an expensive eye” and would buy items, wear them and resell them.

The last day he saw her, on March 19, 2017, she had bought “a beautiful jacket and expensive perfume”. Joking with her, he said: "You must be meeting a man tonight."

“I have one man, one man only,” she said, Mr Keoghan recounted.

“She loved him so much. And she wouldn’t touch another man,” she told him.

Dr Deirdre O’Grady told the trial she had no record of Richard Satchwell attending her medical practice in Fermoy in the 1990s with scratches on his face.

She said that she kept meticulous medical records.

Mr Satchwell said that he had attended with scratches on his face in 1993 or 1994, his barrister Brendan Grehan told the court. Mr Satchwell has alleged that his late wife could be violent.

Mr Grehan also asked Dr O'Grady if she remembered Tina attending to say that her husband had taken an overdose.

But Dr O’Grady said she would have a note on it if something that serious was brought to her attention.

Mr Satchwell had attended her practice briefly and she had consulted his file, she said.

She said she also remembered him attending with Tina for her medical appointments as she had “attended the practice briefly” in the 1990s.

Tina Satchwell was first reported missing by her husband on March 24, 2017.

Her remains were found wrapped in plastic and buried beneath a concrete floor under the stairwell in their terraced home in Youghal six and a half years later.

The trial continues.