THE heartbroken daughter of “murdered” Irishman Jason Corbett – who was just eight when her dad was killed – has hit out at the killers after they were granted a retrial.
The family of the Limerick man were left “distraught and disappointed” by the decision of the North Carolina Supreme Court, in America, on Friday.
His killers, Jason’s wife Molly Martens, 37, and her 70-year-old father, former FBI agent Thomas Martens, could be released on bail ahead of a new trial.
The dad-of-two, 39, was bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat and concrete brick in his bed in August 2015. Jason’s children Jack and Sarah were 10 and eight at the time of the murder.
Sarah took to Twitter yesterday and said: “You took my dad’s life, you destroyed mine, you coached to me lie and told the world it was the truth. How can people in power not see this? I was eight and now you get to break down my whole life again.”
The Martens were found guilty of second degree murder in August 2017 and were sentenced to 20 to 25 years behind bars.
They appealed claiming the judge excluded critical evidence which would have backed up their self-defence
argument.
A new trial date is yet to be confirmed.
