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Gravedigger Jailed For Killing His Girlfriend At Her Home In Crumlin

Audio contains distressing details of domestic violence and coercive control.

A 34-year-old gravedigger from Dublin has been jailed for twelve-and-a-half years for killing his girlfriend at her home in Coolock in July 2017.

Martin Hayes, from Poddle Close in Crumlin, claimed she had died by suicide, but a jury found him guilty of her manslaughter after deliberating for over thirteen hours.

Frank Greaney has this report, which contains distressing details of domestic violence and coercive control:
 

 

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