Graham Dwyer charged with Elaine O'Hara murder

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Graham Dwyer, charged with murdering Elaine O’Hara, denied the allegation at the Central Criminal Court, reported on 27 January 2015.

The trial heard that two heavy metal chains were found in a bedside drawer at Ms O’Hara’s apartment, along with a rope and PVC bodysuit. Dwyer, an architect from Foxrock, denied murdering Ms O’Hara at Killakee, Rathfarnham, on 22 August 2012. Her skeletal remains were found more than a year after she went missing in the Dublin Mountains. The prosecution alleged that he stabbed her for sexual gratification. The court also heard evidence about bones, clothing and a rusty knife blade found at Killakee in September 2013.