The family of Tina Satchwell have paid tribute to her as a "kind, loving and gentle soul" after her husband was found guilty of her murder. Richard Satchwell, who met his then

future wife while she was living in Coalville as a teenager, killed Tina at their home in Co Cork. 58-year-old Satchwell, who is originally from Coalville, had denied killing Tina on a date

between March 19 and March 20, 2017. However, a jury at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin found him guilty last Friday (May 30). Relatives of Tina wept as the verdict was read out.

Speaking outside the court afterwards, family members said they "finally have justice" for the "lovely girl" and wanted people to remember Tina for who she truly was.

claimed that Tina was violent and had attacked him with a chisel on the morning she died, describing it as his explanation for how she ended up dead. "Tina was our precious sister,

cousin, auntie and daughter," Sarah said. "Her presence in our life meant so much to us all. We, as a family, can never put into words the impact that her loss has had on all of

us. Tina was a kind, loving, gentle soul who loved her animals like they loved her and that is the way we want her remembered. Today, as a family, we finally have justice for Tina."

Tina was originally from St Bernard's Place in Fermoy, Co Cork, but moved to Coalville in the 1980s to live with her grandmother, Florence. The court heard that Satchwell told his

brother he would marry Tina the first time he saw her. He proposed to her in October 1989 and the couple were married the following year, on Tina's 20th birthday, in Oldham. There was

no one from Satchwell's family at the wedding, because they did not approve of their relationship. Satchwell, who had described himself as quiet and overweight during the trial, and his

"trophy wife" eventually moved to Ireland, living in various properties in Co Cork and then Fermoy, before buying a house in Youghal in 2016, some 40km from where she grew up.

They were not well known in Youghal, and socialising with locals did not exist in their tight-knit world where it was largely just the two of them. Just 24 hours before she was killed, Tina

had spent the day browsing stalls at a car boot sale in Carrigtwohill, a town east of Cork city centre, where she bought a black jacket and dress. According to Satchwell, the items remained

hung over a door in their living room for a long time after her death. Tina was known for her love of clothes, her two pet dogs and the bargains she could seek out in car boot sales dotted

around Co Cork. Anyone who knew Tina would often recognise her as a glamorous woman who had a love of fashion and clothes. Angela Sheehan, who described herself as an acquaintance of

"petite" Tina, said she was a woman who loved her fashion, high heels, hair, makeup and jewellery. She told the trial that those topics were what they would often talk about when

they met, and she described her as a "lovely girl" who was pleasant, bubbly and good for a laugh. Tina was rarely seen without her beloved dogs, Heidi and Ruby, particularly her

chihuahua Ruby, and had considered them her children. The couple bought Ruby in 2014 after Tina had been struggling with the death of her brother Tom in 2012, with Satchwell saying that Ruby

brought something into Tina's life that she always wanted. They also shared their home with their pet parrot, Valentine. The court heard Tina's voice only once during the trial,

when a video was played during a media appeal for information with Prime Time Investigates in 2018, where she speaks to the parrot asking "What have you got there, Pearl?" in a

soft Cork accent. Tina had grown up believing a woman named Mary Collins was her sister, until she discovered that she was in fact her biological mother. She made the discovery at the time

of her confirmation, when she was looking for her birth certificate, having been raised by her grandmother Florence, who Tina thought was her mother. Sarah Howard and Tina were half-sisters

who shared the same mother, however Tina spent most of her primary school years believing that Sarah Howard was her niece. Their relationship changed following the discovery, with Tina

feeling resentment and hurt that she was not raised by her biological mother while Sarah Howard was kept, the court heard. Few people could give insight into Tina's marriage, but when

Sarah Howard was asked how she would describe the relationship, she said it was "odd". Sarah Howard told the court that Satchwell was obsessive about his wife, and that she thought

he was controlling of her, with Tina once confiding that she knew she could not get away from Satchwell and that he would "follow her to the ends of the earth". Satchwell was

arrested after Tina's remains were found buried under the stairs in the couple's home. He had previously insisted that she had gone missing. After Tina's family got her

remains back in 2023, they buried her in two graves, with half of her ashes placed with their beloved grandmother Florence, and half placed next to her brother Tom. The two had been very

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