Gareth O'Callaghan: A woman's house should be a home — not a place of fear and fatal control
Tina Satchwell was murdered by her husband Richard six years before her body was found buried in her home. File picture
A wise man in criminal law once told me that a defendant who has pleaded not guilty to a crime he knows he committed fears nothing more during his trial than the eyes of the judge. Perhaps that explains why Richard Satchwell rarely looked up at the bench during the trial that found him guilty of the murder of his wife.
A chilling silence descended on the packed courtroom at the Central Criminal Court last Wednesday morning just as Mr Justice Paul McDermott handed down the mandatory life sentence to the former lorry driver.
