A man (46) has been found guilty of murdering his wife at their home in Co Meath shortly before Christmas 2004.
A jury at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin took three hours to find Anton Mulder (46), of Maelduin, Dunshaughlin, Co Meath, guilty of murdering his wife, Colleen Suzanne Mulder, by a majority of ten to two.
Mulder, originally from Durban in South Africa, was given a mandatory life sentence.
His wife, a native of Bangor in Co Down, was found dead in an upstairs bedroom of the house they were renting on the morning of December 17th, 2004. She was wearing pyjamas and had been manually strangled.
During the trial the court heard that Mulder had told a colleague it would be easy to kill his wife in Ireland as he would only get a few years for manslaughter.
He had previously been found guilty of murder after a five-day trial in May 2006, but this verdict was later over turned by the Court of Criminal Appeal who ordered a retrial.
They gave the reason of inappropriate interaction with the jury by Ms Mulder's brother, Mr William Pollock.
During the trial, the jury heard that Colleen Mulder had moved to South Africa with her family when she was seven years old. She met her husband in the mid 1980s, and they later moved to Ireland where Mulder worked for Kentucky Fried Chicken, rising to become regional manager for the Dublin region.
The couple later moved to a rented house in Dunshaughlin in Co. Meath, by which time there were six children, but their relationship deteriorated.