Molly and Tom Martens, killers of Limerick man Jason Corbett, set for release from US jails

, the North Carolina father and daughter sentenced last year for the killing of Limerick man Jason Corbett on voluntary manslaughter, will be released from prison on Thursday.

In October 2023, the Martens were sentenced to a minimum of four years to include time already served under a plea deal they accepted for the voluntary manslaughter of Mr Corbett.Truth about why Jason Corbett died is obscured in a maelstrom of high emotionAftermath of Jason Corbett’s killing: Thomas Martens, ex-FBI, knew just what to tell police

The court heard that in the early hours of August 2nd, 2015, paramedics were called to the home Mr Corbett shared with his wife Molly and his two young children Jack and Sarah, from a previous marriage in Ireland, at Panther Creek Court in a suburb of North Carolina city of Winston-Salem.They found Ms Martens attempting to carry out CPR on Mr Corbett, who had suffered traumatic injuries.

Their 2017 second-degree murder conviction was overturned on appeal in 2020 and the retrial was moved to Forsyth County due to the intensity of the media and public interest in the story. The plea agreement stated that the “autopsy and circumstances of the scene establish that at least some of the fatal blows inflicted were of a nature, number and level of force that exceeded what could have been reasonably necessary in furtherance of perfect self-defence”.

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