Monster Graham Dwyer to make another attempt to have murder conviction overturned

Monster Graham Dwyer is set to make another attempt to have his murder conviction overturned – just weeks after losing an appeal.

Dublin Live has established that the killer is trying to secure permission to go to the Supreme Court. He wishes to challenge his 2015 conviction for the murder three years earlier of childcare worker Elaine O’Hara, 36, in the Dublin Mountains.

Dwyer is hoping to persuade the highest court in the land that there is a legitimate public interest in it hearing a fresh challenge to the conviction. It’s understood Dwyer has already lodged papers with the Supreme Court seeking permission to have his case heard there, but it is likely to be months before judges make a decision.

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News of his fresh bid comes a month after perverted architect Dwyer, 50, suffered a defeat in the Court of Appeal where he was fighting his conviction. He had been hoping that court would uphold his fight against the conviction – but it dismissed every argument he put forward, including a claim by Dwyer’s lawyers that use of call data records at his trial should lead to a retrial.

Detectives from Blackrock Garda Station in south Dublin who investigated the August 2012 murder of Ms O’Hara used data from his work phone to link Dwyer to key evidence in the case. That data was compared to evidence retrieved from two burner phones dumped in Vartry Reservoir in Co Wicklow after the murder and found in September 2013.

The State successfully argued in the 2015 trial that Dwyer and Ms O’Hara used the phones to text each other in the run up to the murder.

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