Sadistic murderer Graham Dwyer and serial killer Mark Nash have been denied jail transfers, the Irish Sunday Mirror has learned.
The pair, who are on the G2 wing of the Midlands Prison in Co Laois, wanted to be moved to jails in Dublin.
It’s understood the two killers, who at one stage were described as being close friends, wanted to transfer to Arbour Hill Prison where Nash was at one stage serving his life sentence.
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A source told the Irish Sunday Mirror how Dwyer is understood to have put in for a jail move following “verbal abuse” from other inmates.
The sex beast, 50, is understood to have come under heat after failing to overturn his conviction for murdering childcare worker Elaine O’Hara last month.
Cocky Dwyer, who had told other prisoners that winning his case would open the door for others, is no longer seen as a “celebrity” in the jail and a number of inmates started to verbally abuse him.
A source said: “In the run up to the court case, Dwyer was telling inmates who would normally not pay him any attention, that when he won they would stand a chance of getting off too.
“He built up their hopes and they were all riding on him winning. He was that confident and gave off such an impression that some inmates ended up looking out for him you could say.
“When he lost his case, the tides quickly turned. Inmates who were once hanging on to his every word now wanted nothing to do with him and there was tension in the air. They were giving him a lot of verbal abuse.
“Some of the prisoners were very annoyed over this and Dwyer appears to be having to keep looking over his shoulder. He put in for a transfer but it was turned down.”
The source added: “Nash was hoping to move back to Arbour Hill as it’s where he was before being moved to the Midlands. He’s very high profile so that’s most likely why it wasn’t granted. Nash appears to be fed up with the Midlands Prison too and had been giving out to staff recently about the DVDs that are on offer in the jail. He just wanted a change of scenery, it seems.”
In 1997, Nash killed four people in two separate attacks – but it took almost two decades before the horror of his serial killing spree came to light.
The Mayo-born murderer, 50, who was raised in England, at one point befriended twisted bondage killer Dwyer at the Laois jail but the pair have since drifted apart. Nash was handed a double life sentence for butchering Catherine and Carl Doyle and leaving his girlfriend Sarah Jane Doyle seriously injured. He had turned from a “Dr Jekyll into a Mr Hyde”, a court was told of the August 1997 attack.
Shortly after his arrest for the killings, Nash admitted the double murder of two women at Grangegorman in Dublin five months earlier, then withdrew his confession. He was charged with those murders in October 2009 after a DNA breakthrough. A cold case review led to both victims’ DNA being found on a velvet jacket belonging to the killer.
In 2015, he was convicted of murdering Sylvia Shiels, 59, and Mary Callinan, 61, in sheltered accommodation on the hospital grounds in March 1997.
Both women were found butchered in their beds. Nash will likely die in jail after his application to the European Court of Human Rights over his conviction for the murders was rejected in 2020.
Meanwhile, it’s understood Cork born Dwyer is to seek a Supreme Court appeal against his conviction of murdering childcare worker Elaine O’Hara. The sicko denied being the person who bought and used a phone found in Vartry Reservoir, Co Wicklow, to send messages about stabbing Ms O’Hara.
After murdering the 36-year-old, he threw some of her belongings into the reservoir and tried to make it look like she had died by suicide. He dumped her body in a forest, where it was found in 2013.
Last month, Mr Justice George Birmingham told the former architect his appeal over wcall data records used at his trial was dismissed.
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