Irish Sunday Mirror

Killer makes vile suggestion­s over asthma death of Jason’s first wife

- BY CORMAC O’SHEA

KILLER Molly Martens has astonishin­gly questioned the manner in which Jason Corbett’s first wife Margaret died.

Molly Martens, 33, and her 67-year-old father Thomas Martens were both sentenced to at least 20 years in prison earlier on Wednesday.

The pair were found guilty of second degree murder after beating 39-year-old Jason Corbett from Co Limerick to death with a baseball bat and brick.

In an interview with American channel ABC, Molly Martens made sick claims about the circumstan­ces in which Jason’s first wife Mags died.

Margaret Fitzpatric­k passed away after suffering cardiac arrest following an asthma attack in November 2006.

However, Molly had raised questions over the mother of two’s death.

She said: “Sometimes he [Jason] would be angry and choking me would turn into something sexual.

“Or sometimes the other way around. Everything always felt so real and so scary in the moment when it was happening.

“It did always make me think of Mags his first wife and wonder if that is what happened to her? The first time, the second time, the third time, the 20th time that you are suffocated or strangled or someone holds their hand over your mouth or a pillow on your face and you can’t breathe for an extended period of time, you think, ‘Oh, well, his first wife died at 3am. Maybe that is going to happen to me’.” The former model and nanny insisted she only kept the marriage going for the sake of Jason’s children Jack and Sarah and wanted to get equal custodial rights for them.

Martens added: “I felt like he was actually going to follow through with the adoption papers.

“I would feel more confident about securing my rights to the children.”

Molly did not get custody of the kids after Jason’s murder.

The convicted killer also claimed Jason was in charge during their marriage.

She said: “He was very controllin­g and very possessive. For the first few months you would just brush that off and go, ‘Well, he just loves me so much’.

“But those kind of things just got worse. He was paranoid I would develop some feelings for someone else.

“Or that somebody would look at me the wrong way. He was worried about a lot of things.”

He was possessive, paranoid I would have feelings for someone else MOLLY MARTENS INTERVIEW WITH ABC

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