Sean Murray

6 days ago | irishexaminer.com | Sean Murray

Richard Satchwell sold his wife Tina’s shoes at car boot sales and told people she was “very ill” and “had gone to England for treatment” a month after he allegedly murdered her, a court has heard. Giving evidence on Thursday, mother and daughter Mary and Julie Crowley said they attended car boot sales where Mr Satchwell was selling items in April and May 2017. “He said that they’d moved into a house that no one had lived in for 12 years,” Mary Crowley said.

1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | Sean Murray

The senior investigating officer at the time when Richard Satchwell was arrested for the murder of his wife has said she couldn't answer why an “invasive” search wasn’t conducted in their home shortly after Tina was first reported missing in March 2017. A court has also heard that Mr Satchwell wasn’t considered a “suspect” in the case until five years after Tina Satchwell was last seen.

1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | Sean Murray

The jury in the trial of murder accused Richard Satchwell has begun to hear details of an “enhanced cognitive interview” with him conducted by gardaí two years before the body of his wife Tina was discovered. Mr Satchwell was invited in to provide this different form of witness statement, and was told to give as much detail as possible in his answers, the court heard.

1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | Sean Murray

Ireland’s consumer watchdog has joined other regulators to tell the fashion industry to stop claiming without evidence that their clothes are “green” or “sustainable” as it’s “unlikely to be true”. The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) said that retailers should avoid vague and general terms, and not try to trick customers into thinking the products are more sustainably made than they actually are.

1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | Sean Murray

Sitting in the office of Brian O’Neill in Boston in the first week of Donald’s Trump second presidency, the veteran lawyer painted a bleak picture of what lay ahead. “He’s going to savage immigration,” he told the , and then picked up a massive tome from his bookshelf of American immigration law. “[Trump] has this guy with him, Stephen Miller. He’s a vicious person but smart as hell. He is just so anti-immigrant. For anybody. He doesn’t care. They will tell you they like Europeans.