MOLLY Martens, the woman convicted of killing Limerick man Jason Corbett in 2015, has had an extra four years added to her sentence for repeatedly breaching prison rules.
Along with her father, retired FBI agent Tom Martens, Molly was convicted of the second-degree murder of the Janesboro man and sentenced to between 20 and 25 years for brutally beating the father of two as he slept in his bed.
Since her incarceration, Molly has fallen foul of prison rules on a number of occasions but avoided any increase in her sentence up until now.
The former au pair and Tennessee woman now has a release date of April 2041 according to the North Carolina Department of Correction.
The pair beat Mr Corbett over the head with a baseball bat that was a present for 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.
