A WOMAN who assaulted a man who was then murdered by her partner and helped to burn the dead man’s clothes was described as having “an appalling childhood” during her sentencing at the Central Criminal Court.
Victoria Moverley (32), no fixed abode, was found guilty last year of assaulting Renars Tuleiko (32), causing him serious harm, at Parnell Park, Thurles, Co Tipperary, on a date unknown between April 13th and 15th, 2007.
She was also found guilty of burning Mr Tuleiko’s clothes after he had been murdered by Kevin Keohane, her partner.
Mr Justice Barry White sentenced Moverley to five years in prison for burning Mr Tuleiko’s clothes and 18 months for the assault, both sentences backdated to November 2007 and to run concurrently. Keohane is serving a life sentence for stabbing to death Mr Tuleiko, a Latvian mechanic, during a drunken row.
The court heard Moverley was born in Yorkshire, England, grew up in a “new age traveller” encampment and, at a very young age, was exposed to substance abuse.
She has three children, all of whom are living in care in Ireland.
Patrick Marrinan SC, prosecuting, told the court that Moverley was nine years old when her mother took her and her siblings to a new age traveller convoy.
“She lived with drunken and drugged-out hippies. It was an appalling situation. She was introduced to hash at the age of nine and, not long after, LSD. By the age of 14 she was pregnant with her first child, to a man 10 years her senior.”