Graham Dwyer is due to find out today if his appeal against his conviction for the murder of Elaine O’Hara has been successful.
In 2015, he was found guilty of murdering the childcare worker but he claims he was denied a fair trial.
By the time Graham Dwyer’s appeal was heard just a few weeks before last Christmas, seven years had passed since a jury convicted him of murder.
The reason it took so long is because his lawyers decided to first challenge the law that allowed for the retention of his mobile phone metadata and the subsequent accessing of it by gardai investigating Elaine O’Hara’s murder.
He won that challenge and unsurprisingly, the admissibility of the evidence at trial featured heavily in his appeal.
He also claimed prejudice was allowed to creep in to the trial and accused the judge of making a mistake by not taking the case out of the jury’s hands due to what they claimed was a lack of evidence.
Next Monday marks the eighth anniversary of Graham Dwyer’s conviction. And in a few hours, we should find out if it’ll be allowed to stand.
