Richard Satchwell Found Guilty

It would appear that the Gardai didn't make much progress until a new superintendent was appointed (Ann-Marie Twomey) as the senior investigating officer in 2021. She reviewed the evidence and immediately found several lines of inquiry. She also got another search warrant and this time used a cadaver dog which was crucial.

This is weird. Police don't wait until there's proof that a body is buried before being able to search for a body. There was a case in France some years back, where the father announced that they were all moving to America, and then they all disappeared.

The French police didn't wait years before digging up the concrete that had recently been put down in the back garden: they dug it up within a short time, and found the wife and, I think all four or maybe five children, several of them adults, buried. The father has never been found though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dupont_de_Ligonn%C3%A8s_murders_and_disappearance

There was an "Unsolved Mysteries" episode on Netflix a few years back about this.

I can't see how anyone can think that AGS didn't fall down very badly on this. I think it's no coincidence that the breakthroughs only started coming when a new investigation officer was appointed. Maybe the fact that the new person was a woman explains a difference in her attitude to missing women too.

So he was her puppy dog...he never mentions what she did for him in all their years together...he made her tea, breakfast,lunch dinner,house upkeep every day of their life...he really gave the public impression she was useless and entitled and loved her for exactly being that way......

Nor can they in France either, I'm sure. But it was clear within weeks, if not days, that Tina Satchwell's disappearance was suspicious. Nobody had seen her leaving the house when her husband said she had, no movement on her account etc.

Put it like this: if Irish law doesn't allow for this sort of disappearance to be treated as suspicious and a proper search of a house to be made, including for a body, then there's something seriously wrong with the law and it needs ot be changed.

Given you think that the laws on hate speech need to be changed, I'm surprised you're so relaxed that actual murders can be ignored "because the law doesn't allow" (according to you anyway - personally I'm unconvinced that the law didn't allow them to search for her properly if the will to do so had been there.)

The “evidence” before the first search was that mysteriously, Tina was nowhere to be found on local CCTV- given the whole of Ireland knew Satchwell killed her from nearly day 1, it’s mind boggling that they didn’t use a cadaver dog on the first search - mind boggling .

So, why did he kill her? Anything said about that in the trial? I mean, what was the reason in his mind for his murderous anger……?

So, all completely irrelevant to why AGS didn't look for her properly after 6 months or a year then?

What changed after 6 years that they were able to bring in a cadaver dog, in your view? Do you think it was too busy until then?

they were aware the renovations on the house early enough, as well as the YouTube video, as well as her bank accounts not touched, as well as other details that would lead any half intelligent police force to realize that this is a dead missing person. 2017 they were aware! It’s inexcusable to most educated folks that the gardai were not near thorough enough; and this is pretty evident when other gardai looked at the flags in 2021 and got it sorted!

Who decides what's a red flag? The Gardai? Who decided those indications were not red flags??

As for what suggested she was in the house or not, that's their job when they're looking for a missing person who has shown no signs of life after months. They aren't supposed to just take the husband's word for it that she went off by herself when literally nobody else, and no cameras etc, could verify that.

There was no evidence that she'd ever LEFT the house, is what they shoudl have borne in mind.

I said they were aware of red flags “early enough,” which is true. 2017 the red flags were there, the same red flags that the 2021 team acted on and got the case proper moving.

I never mentioned “reported.” No idea why you seem to think there were no issues with the initial 4 years that passed before the new team got cracking.

In 2017 they didn’t proper search the house with what red flags they had. Had they done a proper job/search they would have found her body in 2017

So when the guards revisited this in 2021 why didn't all these red flags result in a search within a few weeks or months? Search was Oct 2023.

Lots of experts after the fact as usual. It's easy now to say ah sure it was obvious all along. Go back and look at the other discussion threads on this over the years and find me a comment suggesting this outcome. These things take time, you need all your ducks in a row to do it once and do it right.