Richard Satchwell seeking to have murder trial transferred out of the county

The 57-year-old is due to go on trial in April next year and last June, Mr Justice Paul McDermott set Cork as the venue.

However, Brendan Grehan SC, for Mr Satchwell, made an application on Friday for the trial to be moved from Cork to either Dublin or Limerick.

The Director of Public Prosecutions, represented by Gerardine Small SC, opposed the request.

Mr Justice McDermott at the Central Criminal Court said he would make his ruling on the application on December 16.

Mr Satchwell, with an address at Grattan Street, Youghal, Co Cork is charged with murdering his wife Tina Satchwell (45) at that address on March 20, 2017.

Mrs Satchwell, a native of St Bernard's Place in Fermoy, was reported missing on March 24, 2017 by her husband.

The British truck driver is originally from Leicester in the UK but has been a resident in Cork for over 20 years.

Gardaí found Mrs Satchwell's skeletal remains in October 2023, more than six years after she was reported missing, while excavating a concrete floor and walled-up area underneath the stairwell of the home she and her husband shared on Grattan Street in Youghal.

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