The Supreme Court has begun hearing yet another appeal by Graham Dwyer as he continues to fight his conviction for the murder of Elaine O’Hara.
Last year, the Cork-born architect failed to convince the Court of Appeal to overturn his conviction, but the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a further challenge.
In 2015, Graham Dwyer was convicted of murdering Elaine O’Hara, whose remains were found in the Dublin mountains in 2013.
Last year, he lost all of his grounds of appeal before the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court has today begun hearing a limited and final challenge.
Mobile phone data played a role in Dwyer’s prosecution, but his lawyers claim the retention of that material in the first place was unlawful.
In 2014, the European Court of Justice struck down an EU directive underlying a law here which allowed for that data to be retained.
Dwyer’s barrister, Remy Farrell SC, says the question to be decided is whether the prosecution can be allowed to use in evidence material that shouldn’t have been gathered in the first place.
His lawyers are also taking issue with the weight the Court of Appeal gave the evidence in its ruling last year.
Dwyer is not in court today for today’s hearing
