Jason Corbett’s sister says she was blocked from attending his memorial by off duty police

Jason Corbett’s sister has claimed that her family was blocked from attending his memorial by off duty police officers.

Jason died in 2015 after he was bludgeoned to death by Tom and Molly Martens, his father in law and wife.

Recently, the case has been the focus of a Netflix documentary called A Deadly American Marriage, in which Jason’s family featured heavily.

Since the release of the documentary, Jason’s sister Tracey Corbett Lynch has alleged that she and her husband were blocked from entering his memorial.

Tracey claimed that Molly had hired off duty police officers to make sure the family would not attend. She believes the reason was due to Molly thinking Tracey and her husband were “going to kidnap” Jason’s children, Sarah and Jack.

Molly supposedly feared that Tracey would take the then eight and 10-year-olds back to Ireland with her.

Molly and Jason via Netflix

Tracey said that leading up to the memorial, she and her husband were in North Carolina, noting: “Molly had hired off duty police officers for that memorial service so that we couldn’t attend, a team of off duty police officers from an adjacent county. She felt that we were going to kidnap the children.”

However, Tracey did explain to Molly that she wanted to take the children back to their native land, but would do it properly “through the courts”, as was actually done in the end.

Speaking recently on Brendan O’Connor on RTÉ Radio 1, Sarah called the memorial “absolutely bizarre”, adding that Molly’s family “acted like nothing had happened”.

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She further explained that Molly was acting “like she had a new lease of life”, continuing by telling the host: “So there was a memorial service for my dad. And I remember standing in the middle of this room with Jack, and there was a load of people we had never met before getting, like, food, and it was really sunny outside, and there were no pictures of my dad. My dad’s body wasn’t there. My dad’s family wasn’t there.

“And it was kind of like a popularity thing for Molly, because everyone was going up to her. But nobody, none of the Martens ever said, ‘I’m sorry. Your dad is gone.’”

Sarah added that at this time, she was staying in one of the Martens’ homes, but that they also had family over from Puerto Rico so there was around “20 people” in the house whilst she was grieving.

“They were out in the pool and having barbecues,” Sarah said. “And the only thing that was a little bit weird was the hush conversations between the Martens family. But no one ever checked on me and Jack to see, if were we okay. You know, I spent most of my time in a tree house, in the back garden, and Jack spent most of his time in a cornfield he found a few kilometres away.”

Following the memorial, Tom and Molly were convicted of second degree murder, however, they had their convictions quashed with a retrial finding them guilty of voluntary manslaughter. They are now out of prison.

Featured image via Netflix