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2014-05-23 · Portlaoise, Laois
In May 2014 a man from Portlaoise, Robert Corbet, aged 25, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of 30‑year‑old nanny Aoife Phelan. Corbet pleaded not guilty but admitted to strangling Phelan in his garage between 25 October and 7 November 2012. He claimed he had doubts about her pregnancy, that she threatened him, and that these…
2014-05-20
In a murder trial, the court heard that 30‑year‑old Laois nanny Aoife Phelan was not pregnant when she was strangled to death. State Pathologist Professor Marie Cassidy testified that Phelan's body was found buried behind the accused Robert Corbet's property. The autopsy revealed asphyxia with blood in the nose and ears, pinpoint haemorrhages in…