{"id":432908,"date":"2026-05-05T05:19:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/432908\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T05:19:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:19:20","slug":"man-39-charged-with-murder-of-mother-of-three-in-waterford-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/432908\/","title":{"rendered":"Man (39) charged with murder of mother-of-three in Waterford &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">A man has been charged with the murder of Yveta Donovalova.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Tomas Marvanek (39), of Grange Heights, Waterford City, was charged and cautioned just after midnight on Wednesday, April 29, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Mother-of-three Yveta was found gravely injured at her home in Grange Heights on the evening of Monday, April 27, 2026. She was pronounced dead at University Hospital Waterford (UHW) a short time later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">On Wednesday evening, Marvanek appeared at Waterford District Court aided by a Czech interpreter. He was wearing a black hoodie and appeared to have red marks on his shaved head.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Judge Kevin Staunton heard from Detective Garda Sean Lane about the arrest and charge of Mr Marvanek. According to Det. Lane, after being charged with murder Marvanek said: \u201cI have nothing to say.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Solicitor Ken Cunningham requested that a Czech interpreter be provided at the next hearing. Mr Cunningham also requested that the accused be medically and psychologically evaluated on arrival. Judge Staunton accepted the application.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The issue of bail did not arise due to the Court\u2019s jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Marvanek will appear via video link at Waterford District Court tomorrow (Tuesday), May 5. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n             Funded by the Court Reporting Scheme\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been charged with the murder of Yveta Donovalova. Tomas Marvanek (39), of Grange Heights, Waterford&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-432908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432908","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=432908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}