The European Court of Justice is expected to rule against the Irish State in a case referred to it after mobile phone records were used to convict murderer Graham Dwyer. Mobile phone data was crucial to showing how Dwyer planned and attempted to cover up the murder of 36-year-old childcare worker Elaine O’Hara in August 2012. The Supreme Court has responded that it wishes the case to proceed and hearings are expected to begin in mid-January. The Court of Appeal may decide there was enough additional evidence aside from the mobile phone data to support Dwyer’s conviction. Or it may decide gardaí and prosecutors acted in good faith when utilising the mobile phone evidence, meaning the evidence could still stand.

Source: The Irish Times November 16, 2020 02:48 UTC