‘My urge to rape, stab, and kill is huge’

The trial of a 42-year-old architect charged with murdering Elaine O’Hara has been told he killed her for his own sexual gratification, following an unusual sexual relationship between them, which involved stabbing.

The State opened its case yesterday in the trial of Cork native Graham Dwyer. He is charged with murdering the 36-year-old Dubliner on August 22, 2012, hours after she was discharged from St Edmundsbury Hospital in Lucan, where she had been a psychiatric patient.

Mr Dwyer, of Kerrymount Close, Foxrock, Dublin, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Ms O’Hara on that date at Killakee, Rathfarnham.