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Old friend of Graham Dwyer tells trial of meet-up one month before alleged murder

An old friend of Graham Dwyer's has given evidence of a get together with the architect the month...
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13.18 27 Feb 2015


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Old friend of Graham Dwyer tells trial of meet-up one month before alleged murder

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13.18 27 Feb 2015


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An old friend of Graham Dwyer's has given evidence of a get together with the architect the month before he allegedly murdered Elaine O'Hara.

The 42-year-old of Kerrymount Close, Foxrock denies stabbing the childcare worker at Killakee mountain in Dublin in August 2012.

Our Courts Correspondent Francesca Comyn reports:

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This afternoon we heard from a number of short witnesses including Colm Costello a friend of Graham Dwyer's since nursery school in Bandon Co Cork.

He spoke of a get together a group of six of them had in a pub in Foxrock on the 2nd July 2012 - as he left court he acknowledged the accused with a brief greeting.

The jury also heard details of Graham Dwyer's toll records particularly information relating to booths on the M4 and M6 Dublin to Galway road on the 4 July 2012

Earlier the jury was presented with details of mobile phone cell coverage and how operators like Vodafone, 3 and 02 gave gardai records for several phones of interest including a prepaid 083 number and for what the prosecution says is Graham Dwyer's 087 number.

Way back at the beginning of this trial prosecution counsel Sean Guerin told the jury that his side would set out to prove there was mobile phone contact between childcare worker Ms O'Hara, and the accused Mr Dwyer.

He said they would hear that gardaí managed to extract data from Ms O'Hara's two phones - as well as from a Nokia phone found along with her keys and glasses in the Vartry reservoir in Co Wicklow in September 2013.

In that opening address, he said that the content of the messages between the phones would show that they had an unusual sexual relationship that included acts of stabbing.

Five weeks on, the jury is now beginning to hear evidence of phone traffic to and from five mobiles of interest to gardai carrying out the investigation - including a prepaid '083' number bought on Grafton Street, and an 087 number registered to A&D Wejchert - the architects firm where Mr Dwyer worked.

Mobile phone operators like 02 and 3 Ireland supplied gardai with records dating from 2011 to 2013.

Telecoms engineer Conor O'Callaghan also gave evidence explaining how mobile phone calls bounce off different cells, according to location.


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