Graham Dwyer granted second counsel in murder case

This report is a localnews.ie summary based on public court reporting and records; sources are listed below.

Graham Dwyer was granted a second junior counsel in the Central Criminal Court on 21 July 2014 while charged with murdering Elaine O’Hara. The court heard that his defence involved six months of CCTV footage, 540 witness statements, 408 witnesses, 925 exhibits and five terabytes of computer data. Mr Dwyer was in custody awaiting a trial scheduled for January 2015. The judge said the scale of the work justified appointing another junior counsel.