{"id":423931,"date":"2026-04-29T20:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/423931\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T20:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T20:00:08","slug":"man-39-remanded-in-custody-charged-with-murder-of-yveta-donovalova-in-co-waterford-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/423931\/","title":{"rendered":"Man (39) remanded in custody charged with murder of Yveta Donovalova in Co Waterford \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A 39-year-old man has been remanded in custody after he was charged with murder of a 43-year-old mother of three found with stab wounds in a house in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/waterford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/waterford\">Waterford<\/a> city earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Tomas Marvanek, of Grange Heights, John\u2019s Hill, Waterford, appeared before a special sitting of Waterford District Court on Wednesday evening charged with the murder of Yveta Donovalova at Grange Heights, John\u2019s Hill, Waterford, on April 27th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Det <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/an-garda-siochana\">Garda<\/a> Sean Lane of Waterford Garda station gave evidence of arrest, charge and caution. He told the court that Marvanek said \u201cI have nothing to say\u201d to the charge when it was put to him after caution following his arrest shortly after midnight on April 29th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Judge Kevin Staunton noted that as bail was not available on a murder charge in the District Court, it would be a remand in custody. Defence solicitor Ken Cunningham acknowledged that and suggested that his client would be remanded in custody for a week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Marvanek was accompanied by an interpreter in the dock. When the judge queried if English was Marvanek\u2019s first language, Cunningham confirmed that it wasn\u2019t and that he was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/czech-republic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/czech-republic\/\">Czech<\/a> national. The judge assigned the same interpreter to assist him.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Garda&#xED; attended the scene of the incident Grange Heights, Waterford. Photograph: Jim Campbell\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/CKIJQBKKUFB7XNU7E2RTPZQBZI.jpg\"   width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>Garda\u00ed attended the scene of the incident Grange Heights, Waterford. Photograph: Jim Campbell <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Cunningham also asked that his client be medically and psychiatrically evaluated on arrival in prison on remand and the judge ordered that he be so assessed, before remanding him to appear by video-link at Waterford District Court on May 5th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Cunningham also made an application for free legal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The judge granted the application and assigned Cunningham to represent the accused, who did not speak during the four-minute hearing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Donovalova, who lived at the house with Grange Heights with her husband and three children and the accused, had moved to Ireland over a decade ago and had worked in Waterford as a cleaner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 39-year-old man has been remanded in custody after he was charged with murder of a 43-year-old mother&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[45,56982,42,43,40,38,41,39,6513],"class_list":["post-423931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-czech-republic","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-waterford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}