‘Jason is still gone, it’s not a celebration,’ says his twin brother

A BROAD smile appeared on the face of Jason Corbett’s twin brother as multiple text messages confirming the jury’s verdicts came through to his phone back in Ireland.

Pausing briefly, Wayne Corbett took a deep breath as he took in the dramatic moment.

‘It’s been a long two years,’ he said speaking from the home of his parents John and Rita in Janesboro, Limerick.

‘We’re just delighted as a family that the whole ordeal is over and done with, and that they have been found guilty.’

This moment, he agreed, is “bittersweet”.

‘We’re delighted it’s finally at an end. It’s not a celebration – Jason is still gone – but finally people have been found guilty, and justly so. It was a cold-blooded murder,’ he added.

He said his 76-year-old mother, was too emotional to talk to reporters.

‘It’s been a great relief for my elderly parents that this has finally come to an end; that we can all now grieve for Jason without having to worry about the court case.

‘Hopefully, we can start to try to put this behind us and start to concentrate and grieve for Jason.

‘I’m overwhelmed, but I’m not shocked with the verdict. I was totally confident [the jury] would find them guilty.

‘I was [at the trial] for three weeks, and for me, that was the only conclusion they could come to,’ he added.

Mr Corbett revealed he received the initial contact from the Martens family about Jason’s death.

However, he claimed the phone call made to him was ten hours after his twin brother’s murder.

‘It’s surreal. It’s like we were living a nightmare for the last two years. It was ten hours… As far as I know the police asked Molly Martens did she want them to contact us, and she said no, on a number of occasions,’ he claimed.

‘She wouldn’t let them contact us, because she was next-of-kin at the time.’

Mr Corbett said Ms Martens and her father deserved to go to jail for the rest of their lives. ‘Yes, I feel they should serve life in prison. Nothing will make up for the last two years that family put us through, nothing at all,’ he said.

He said Molly and Tom Martens ‘finally got their just desserts now’. ‘Hopefully they’ll be in prison for quite a long time, he said, before adding, ‘Justice has been done.’

Mr Corbett said he believed former FBI agent Thomas Martens ‘thought he was above everyone’ and ‘he thought that nothing would touch (him)’.

‘He thought that we were a small family from Ireland, and that we wouldn’t fight – but we did. He has a long time now to think about that.’

Jason Corbett’s sister, Tracey, along with her husband, David Lynch, were granted full custody of Jason’s children, Jack and Sarah, following a protracted bitter legal battle in the US.

The children’s mother and Jason’s first wife, Mags Fitzpatrick, tragically died of an asthma attack in 2006.

Wayne Corbett said Jack and Sarah Corbett were being well taken care of by their family.

‘All our prime focus going forward is the welfare of Jack and Sarah…that’s what Mags and Jason would have wanted.’

Fighting back tears, Jason’s older brother Stephen Corbett thanked the family’s supporters. ‘We had support from all over the world. All the people who helped us down through the years, I can’t thank them enough.’

‘I’m overwhelmed but not shocked’