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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Cate McCurry

Murder accused ‘claimed wife was still alive while body lay in shallow grave’

Richard Satchwell (Brian Lawless/PA) - (PA Archive)

A murder accused said he was “innocent of any wrongdoing” about the disappearance of his wife, saying he believed she was still alive during media interviews in 2017, while her body lay in a shallow grave in their family home, a court has heard.

Richard Satchwell, 58, from Grattan Street in Youghal, Co Cork, denies murdering his wife Tina Satchwell at the home they shared in March 2017.

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