‘Almost perfect murder’

A successful architect with an alleged deep-rooted sexual desire to stab women almost carried out the perfect murder but for an unusually hot summer which revealed breakthrough evidence thrown into a reservoir, it has been claimed.

Father-of-two Graham Dwyer, aged 42, of Kerrymount Close, Foxrock, south Dublin, denies murdering childcare worker Elaine O’Hara, 37, in the Dublin mountains on August 22, 2012.

Opening the trial at the Central Criminal Court, prosecution barrister Sean Guerin SC claimed that text messages sent to Ms O’Hara, who was battling psychiatric illness, revealed a manipulative, abusive affair between the pair involving very unusual sexual practices.