JAILED killer Molly Martens has avoided having an extra four years added to her 20-25 year sentence for the brutal killing Limerick man Jason Corbett.
Martens, who was convicted along with her father and retired FBI agent Thomas of beating the Limerick man to death is his bed, had been facing further discipline over a breach of prison rules.
The former nanny and second wife to the Limerick businessman had been convicted last August of the Irishman’s second degree murder but was later cited for breaching strict rules in the high security US prison.
Her father, Thomas (67), a retired FBI agent, was also found guilty by the same Davidson County Superior Court jury of the second-degree murder of Mr Corbett.
The pair beat Mr Corbett over the head wth a baseball bat that was a present for a his son and a paving slab as he lay in bed. Traces of a sedative, prescribed to Molly, was found in Mr Corbett’s system at post mortem.
US prosecutors claimed that that the father and daughter feigned emergency CPR on Mr Corbett during a 999 call they made.
The pair denied the charges and have lodged appeals before the North Carolina Court of Appeals which are expected to be heard later this autumn.
Jason’s two children, Jack and Sarah, were at the centre of a custody battle between Molly Marten’s and Jason’s sister Tracey Corbett Lynch. The children now reside in Limerick with the Lynch family.
Three months after Molly was jailed for between 20 and 25 years, she was found to be on unauthorised leave from a section of the high security prison.
Now known in the US correctional system as inmate number is 1551729, Molly Martens either left a supervised area without permission or failed to report to a supervised area which led to the citation.
The breach would have meant that an additional four years would be added to Molly’s jail time at the Southern Correctional Institution outside Lexington, however her release date of August 3, 2037 remains intact.
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