Richard Satchwell, now on trial for the alleged murder of his wife Tina in 2017, told gardaí her personality drastically shifted after her brother’s 2012 suicide. In a video interview following his October 2023 arrest,
Satchwell recounted how Tina became emotionally distant and aggressive, often threatening to leave him and expressing hatred, only to apologise later.
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He said their sexual relationship ended after her brother’s death and never resumed, although intimacy was never frequent. Despite his desire for children, he said Tina was always firm that motherhood wasn’t for her A decision he respected.
Satchwell described enduring emotional and physical abuse, recalling instances like being hit, punched, and once left with over 30 bite marks.
The last violent incident, he claimed, involved a lamp being thrown at him in early 2017. He stressed he had never retaliated, adhering to personal rules against violence and infidelity.#ADVERT
After Tina disappeared, he said he was consumed by confusion and grief. However, gardaí later told him that witness accounts contradicted his account.
Satchwell dismissed these claims, calling them mistaken or untrue. Tina’s body was found over six years later, hidden beneath the stairs in their Youghal home.
