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11/03/2010
Life Sentence For Corcoran Murder
A 49-year old painter-decorator from Co Cork has been given a life sentence for the murder of a 60-year-old widow in west Cork last year.
Oliver Hayes of Clancool Terrace in Bandon, Co Cork, beat Anne Corcoran to death after forcing her to reveal her bank account details. Hayes was heavily in debt at the time of the murder.
He stole €3,000 from her before burying her body in woods before taking himself on a skiing holiday to Austria.
Anne Corcoran had lived alone with her two pet dogs for two years after her husband's death on her family farm near Kilbrittain in west Cork.
Her disappearance from her home raised suspicions when her dogs were found uncared for there, and local people turned out in their hundreds to conduct relays of searches over nine days in appalling weather conditions.
At yesterday's hearing, Hayes was also sentenced to ten years in prison to run concurrently for false imprisonment and for five counts of theft and one count of attempt theft.
(DW/BMcC)
Oliver Hayes of Clancool Terrace in Bandon, Co Cork, beat Anne Corcoran to death after forcing her to reveal her bank account details. Hayes was heavily in debt at the time of the murder.
He stole €3,000 from her before burying her body in woods before taking himself on a skiing holiday to Austria.
Anne Corcoran had lived alone with her two pet dogs for two years after her husband's death on her family farm near Kilbrittain in west Cork.
Her disappearance from her home raised suspicions when her dogs were found uncared for there, and local people turned out in their hundreds to conduct relays of searches over nine days in appalling weather conditions.
At yesterday's hearing, Hayes was also sentenced to ten years in prison to run concurrently for false imprisonment and for five counts of theft and one count of attempt theft.
(DW/BMcC)
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