Retired detective said scene of murders carried out by Mark Nash will stay with him for the rest of his life

The jury is on its second day of deliberation in the trial of a man accused of a double murder in Grangegorman 18 years ago.

The prosecution counsel in the trial of a man accused of murdering two women 18 years ago has told the jury that if the accused is not guilty, there are a series of “truly amazing coincidences”.

A forensic scientist has told a murder trial he has discounted the fact that DNA profiles from two women killed nearly 20 years ago were found on the sleeve of a jacket belonging to the murder accused.

DNA profiles from two women killed in Grangegorman nearly 20 years ago were found on a jacket belonging to murder accused Mark Nash in 2009, a jury has heard.

A forensic scientist told a murder trial jury yesterday that a mark on lino in a house where two women were killed 18 years ago was likely to have been made by a Caterpillar brand boot.

A Garda chief superintendent told a murder trial yesterday that he retrieved clothing from the home of a man accused of murdering two women 18 years ago.

An ex-partner of a man on trial for a double murder has testified that he was a fantasist and “told a lot of lies”.

A former Assistant Garda Commissioner has told a jury how a man who was first charged with the 1997 murder of one woman, but later had the charge withdrawn, could not have "more accurately described" the carving knife blades found at the scene.

A man charged with a 1997 double murder said a confession made by him in relation to the killings was “produced” by gardaí, a jury has heard.

A jury has heard that a man on trial for a 1997 double murder gave a statement to gardaí, admitting he stabbed two women after breaking into a house .

The jury foreman in the trial of a man accused of murdering two women 18 years ago, has been excused.

The jury foreman in the trial of a man accused of murdering two women eighteen years ago, has been excused.

Garda outlines horrific scene at site of Grangegorman murders

“A spectacular breakthrough” led to the DNA of two women, found dead at their sheltered accommodation in Grangegorman 18 years ago, being found on the jacket of a man on trial accused of their murder, a trial has heard.

The prosecution has begun laying out its evidence in the trial of two women murdered in Dublin nearly 18 years ago.

A man has pleaded not guilty to murdering two women in sheltered accommodation in Grangegorman in Dublin, 18 years ago.

A 36-year-old man has been charged with the 1997 Grangegorman murders in Dublin.

A man is due to appear before Dublin District Court this morning charged in connection with the murders of two women in Grangegorman 12 years ago.

GARDAÍ did not attempt to frame Dean Lyons, the drug addict wrongly charged with a double murder in 1997, the deputy commissioner of the force has reiterated.

THE sister of one of the two women killed in the infamous Grangegorman murders has said she was “particularly upset” at the leaking of an investigation report to the newspapers.

GARDAÍ conducting a forensic ‘cold case’ review of the 1997 Grangegorman murders, which were never solved, expect to have preliminary findings by the end of July.

THE mother of a drug addict who was wrongly charged with a double murder in 1997 yesterday said the Government was passing the buck by hiring a lawyer to investigate the case.

A NEW garda team, supported by specialist officers, has made progress in the troubled Grangegorman murder investigation, gardaí said yesterday.

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THE family of a deceased young man wrongly accused of a double murder yesterday joined calls for a public inquiry into the garda investigation of the case.

LATE on the evening of April 11, 1998, Aisling McCarthy, grieving over the sudden death of her mother hours earlier, was told the 47-year-old had been murdered.

LAWS relating to inquests are outmoded and inadequate, the Dublin City Coroner said after a jury returned an unlawful killing verdict in the case of two elderly women murdered in their sheltered homes.

The DUBLIN city coroner said yesterday that “significant deficiencies” in legislation had forced him to abandon plans to compel convicted killer Mark Nash to give evidence at an inquest.

JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell has ruled out any further inquiries into the Dean Lyons case — the now dead addict who was controversially charged with a double murder in 1997.

LAWYERS for convicted killer Mark Nash have claimed he should not be forced to give evidence at an inquest into the deaths of two women who were murdered in Dublin five years ago.

MARCH 6, 1997 was a normal day for the three middle-aged residents of 1 Orchard View, a sheltered health-board-run house in Dublin’s north inner city.

MAJOR question marks remain over the garda handling of the probe into the most brutal murders in Irish criminal history.

THE prime suspect for the murder of two female patients in the grounds of a Dublin psychiatric hospital in 1997 has refused to attend an inquest into their deaths.