‘If I leave and you come after me I’ll go to the guards’
Hubby tells of missing Tina’s ‘warning during row’
MISSING Tina Satchwell warned her husband if she decided to leave him she would go to the gardai if he came after her, he claimed yesterday.
The 46-year-old has not been seen since last March and officers are currently combing a 40-acre woodland in Castlemartyr, Co Cork, for her body.
Richard Satchwell, who has consistently denied any involvement in her disappearance, told Ireland AM yesterday: “From time to time she had turned around and said, ‘If I ever decide to get up and go and you come after me I will go to the guards’.
“But then 20 minutes later you know she would be like, ‘I didn’t really say that’. It was the way she was.
“One minute she would be sitting down laughing and the next she could be crying.
“A lot of stuff happened over a spell of say 10/12 years within the family which was beginning to weigh down on Tina.”
And when asked if they were going through a tough time as a couple he said: “As a couple no. We celebrated our 25th anniversary just before the Christmas and everything was good.
“When you are living so close to it you don’t see everything that is going on.”
Mr Satchwell added Tina didn’t want to discuss her low moods with a doctor.
He said: “One of Tina’s biggest fears was ending up on anti-depressants.
“That was the one thing she made me promise I would never make her have. That was kind of from day one.
“Her best friend told me Monday she did know Tina was upset and depressed.
“I would say 90% of everything I know about Tina, her best friend knows. She used to confide everything in her.
“I spend most of my time lost because I spent the last 29 years with Tina. We did everything together, not having that anymore, it is lonely.
“Yeah I talk to people but it’s not the same thing. We are best friends.
“We spend from early morning until late at night talking.
“Every job, she would always come out with me. Even in the lorries and stuff.”
Mr Satchwell reported Tina missing on March 24 last year when he realised she was not
Fermoy.
Officers launched their search operation earlier this week after a witness came forward with new information claiming to have spotted a man acting suspiciously in the area at the time of her disappearance last year.
Sources also indicated investigators are examining the possibility this man staying with family in
Gardai in Castlemartyr, Co Cork, this week On Ireland AM may have been in the company of a blonde woman in the woodland.
The area has been fenced off and a 24-hour protection post is at the scene. A Garda statement revealed the investigation has resulted in more than 220 separate lines of inquiry.
Detectives also reached out to police forces internationally through Interpol.