Jason Corbett’s killer Thomas Martens is set to be released from prison 21 days earlier than expected – adding further insult to the Irish businessman’s family and memory, it can be revealed.
Thomas, 73, and his daughter Molly, 40, were moved from Davidson County Jail in the US to high security prisons last December.
The move happened just days after it was exposed the prison date blunders that left Jason’s heartbroken family outraged and US prison officials red-faced – and saw Thomas and Molly almost walking free.
The Department of Adult Correction in North Carolina confirmed the imminent release dates for the evil pair of Tuesday, December 5 last and Wednesday, December 6 last displayed on their publicly available prison records were correct.
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But later, red-faced prison officials admitted to a mix up due to “human error” and reversed their embarrassing error on their release dates which then prevented the pair from walking free.
Prison officials were forced to then admit the killers would be caged until June 27.
Now, Jason’s family have been informed by Victim Notification that Thomas’s new release date has been brought forward by 21 days giving him an earlier release date of June 6.
Thomas was moved from Davidson County Jail to Piedmont Correctional Institute, a high security prison, on December 5 following the release date blunder revealed by this paper, while Molly was moved to North Carolina Correctional Institute for Women.
It was also revealed that days later, on December 13 last, Thomas was moved to a cushy minimum security prison called Caldwell Correctional Centre in Lenoir, North Carolina – where he is availing of a single bed cell and academic classes.
Molly remains in North Carolina Correctional Institute for Women in Raleigh and her projected release date remains at June 27.
Both killers accepted a voluntary manslaughter plea deal over the killing of Co Limerick dad-of-two Jason Corbett in 2015 for beating him to death with a metal baseball bat and a concrete paving slab in his home in North Carolina. They claimed self-defence.
They were initially convicted of second degree murder and jailed for 20 to 25 years.
But in 2020, a retrial was ordered due to an appeal court deciding that some evidence had been excluded from the original trial.
Molly and Thomas accepted a plea deal of voluntary manslaughter upon appeal and they received a prison sentence of between 51 and 74 months, taking into account the 44 months already served.
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