Killer Graham Dwyer interrupts lawyer three times during appeal

• Author: Paul Neilan
• Published date: 02 December 2022
• Publication title: DublinLive (Ireland)

Dwyer, 50, who was found guilty of murdering the vulnerable care worker for his sexual gratification in 2012, is appealing his conviction. His lawyers are arguing that the retention of mobile phone data used in the case is an "opportunistic form of mass surveillance" that transforms phones into tracking devices that can reveal a detailed picture of every aspect of a person's life

At the Court of Appeal today, Dwyer repeatedly interrupted Sean Guerin SC, for the DPP, to deny text messages attributed to him. Mr Guerin was drawing the court's attention to a June 27, 2011, text message which was sent from a phone attributed to Dwyer that read: "I want to stick my knife in flesh while sexually aroused. Blood turns me on and I would love to stab a girl to death sometime."

Mr Guerin said Dwyer did to Ms O'Hara what he said he was going to do. "I didn't say any of that," interrupted Dwyer from the prisoner's area.

Mr Guerin said that one text message from Dwyer to his victim read that if anyone was to ask her who was texting her, she should tell them it was her brother. "I never wrote that," Dwyer again interrupted.

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