A man who killed his wife and kept her body hidden for years under the stairs of their County Cork home has been sentenced to life in prison.

Tina Satchwell, who was 45, was killed by Richard Satchwell in March 2017.

The trial lasted almost five weeks, and the jury at the Central Criminal Court took just under ten hours to find Satchwell guilty of murder last week.

The judge heard victim impact statements from Tina Satchwell’s family before imposing the mandatory life sentence.