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Ellen Gough, 3 Nov
A RETIRED forensic pathologist has said that Jason Corbett’s first wife
did not die of an asthma attack and that it is possible that Margaret
'Mags' Corbett’s death was a homicide.
The revelation was part of evidence introduced at the sentencing
hearing of Molly Martens and her father Thomas on Thursday.
Ralph Riegel, reporting for the Irish Independent, said that former
Kentucky chief medical examiner Dr George Nichols said that "in my
opinion (the Irish pathologist) opinion is completely wrong."
In November 2006, Ms Corbett became ill and was driven by Mr Corbett
towards an ambulance. She stopped breathing and was revived by the
ambulance crew, but later passed away at University Hospital Limerick.
Her cause of death was listed as a cardio-respiratory attack with a
bronco-spasm in a known asthmatic.
When it was put to Dr Nichols that the death could be a possible
homicide he replied: "correct", but stressed that: "it is nowhere close
to probable."
A secret recording made by Molly Martens on Shrove Tuesday, February
2015, was played for the court on Thursday.
The recording featured an angry exchange between Molly Martens and
Jason Corbett and his then 10-year-old daughter, Sarah screaming for
them to stop fighting.
Evidence was also given by Sheila Tyler, a North Carolina investigative
social worker, who interviewed Ms Martens 24 hours after her husband's
death.
Ms Tyler said Ms Martens told her that he would force her to have sex
and place his hand over her nose and mouth until she passed out.
On Monday, Mr Martens pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter of Mr
Corbett while Ms Martens entered a “no contest” plea to the same
charge.
Mr Corbett was beaten to death with a baseball bat and concrete paving
slab in his home in 2015.