“He asked Tanya at one point to call an ambulance, that she had stabbed him in the heart,” Noel Byrne said. “I believe the last stab wound happened as he lay on the bed and the carving knife pierced one side of his neck and out the other.”After the death, the family received legal advice to reach a settlement with Doyle to buy out her share of the deceased’s house. Otherwise she would be entitled to a key on her release from prison.
“We can’t understand how an insurance company would pay a convicted murderer who stated that they killed a person for money to receive any benefit whatsoever,” Noel Byrne said. However, the family were later told she was entitled to a portion of the money. She would have received €23,000 a year which the family estimated would be worth €1 million over the course of Doyle’s lifetime.
Doyle was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder. She is due for her first parole hearing in June of this year.