Cases involving man convicted of murdering Elaine O’Hara were before five different courts in eight years
On Friday, almost eight years after Dwyer’s conviction on March 27th, 2015, the Court of Appeal rejected another attempt by him to avoid responsibility for O’Hara’s death.
O’Hara went missing from her home on August 22nd, 2012, and was last seen in a public park in Shanganagh in south Dublin. Garda James O’Donoghue carried out further searches at the reservoir and found other items including a Dunnes Stores loyalty card belonging to O’Hara. A search of the lake by Garda divers located more items, including two Nokia mobile phones and a pair of glasses which matched an optician’s records for the missing woman.
Another text in 2011 stated: “My urge to rape, stab or kill is huge. You have to help me control or satisfy it.” Text messages from O’Hara included ones referring to repeated threats, sent from the phone attributed to Dwyer, to stab and kill her. Dwyer then pursued a determined campaign over years to overturn his conviction, which has involved hearings before the High Court, Supreme Court, Court of Justice of the European Union and, most recently, the Court of Appeal.
His bid for release began with a successful outing to the High Court which ruled in 2018 that the 2011 Irish law under which his phone metadata was retained and accessed by gardaí breached EU law because it allowed for general retention of data without necessary safeguards or independent oversight.
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