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Heartless killer Richard Satchwell romanced other women as wife's body lay under his stairs
A key witness has come forward with damning evidence
A key witness has come forward with damning evidence which reveals the heartless fiend was wining and dining his lover while tragic Tina lay for hidden for years without a proper burial.
'She was in or around his own age group, maybe a year two older,' reveals a taxi driver in Galway city, who met up with them over six years ago.
'She had prominent teeth. I won't call them buck teeth but they'd strike you when you'd look at her. She didn't give her name. '
The driver, who wants to remain unidentified but is a trusted Sunday World source, can pinpoint when he met Satchwell and his lover.
'It was on a Thursday evening about two years after she went missing,' he recalls.
'Tina went missing in 2017, and I had this guy with me in I believe 2019, it was a Thursday evening in February about 6.30pm
'I dropped some people at Jurys Inn (now Leonardo hotel).
I went out to use the bathroom at the bar and saw this guy waiting about five minutes he approached me and he said 'would you mind drop us out to Salthill'?'
Flowers at Tina's house
He then clicked the man in the English accent who he was making arrangements with while they sat into his car.
'I knew who he was on the spot but I pretended to be stupid, as I wanted to suss him out,' he explains.
'I kind of played along and said 'are you on holidays, are you visiting?'. He replied in his English accent 'yeah, we're just up for a few days'.
'I said 'are youse from the city, I know Cork very well, I used to work for a company down there'.
'No,' he said, 'I'm from Youghal.'
''And yourself?', I asked her
''I'm from ***** in west Cork, like you know' she replied (the Sunday World is keeping the name of the village secret for now).'
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The driver said he remembered the name of the place she lived because he grew up in different area with the same name.
The taxi-man said he could see the pair were clearly a couple.
'There was a lot of touchy feely stuff going on between them,' he confirms. It was more than just friends, there was definitely a relationship.'
He describes the woman as 'a lovely lady'.
'They were staying in The Salthill Hotel, but they asked to be dropped along by the amusement centre on the promenade just before the hotel,' he remembers.
He admits at the time he speculated as to how long they were together.
'I got the impression they were together for a good while and there's a possibility they may have been seeing each other before the wife ever went missing,' he ponders.
'After I dropped them off I...
rang Salthill station and one of the Guards there rang me back and they took it very seriously.
'The next day I did an interview with a senior Guard from Cobh, which I think was the main station dealing with the case.
'There was no banter whatsoever from him, it was strictly business and he wanted to know every detail of what Satchwell and the woman were up to and where they were going. He had the [hotel] CCTV footage himself after it being downloaded.'
He assumes the Guards did try to find the woman.
'I'd be guessing they would have tried to track her down. But she wasn't doing anything wrong, and he didn't seem to be at the time either,' he says.
