Jury foreman excused in Grangegorman murder trial

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

The jury in the Mark Nash murder trial, who returned yesterday after two and half weeks of legal argument, has been reduced to six men and five women. The jury elected a new foreman.

Mark Nash, aged 42, who had last addresses at Prussia St and Clonliffe Rd in Dublin, has pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to the double murder of Sylvia Shields, 59, and Mary Callanan, 61, who lived in a house attached to St Brendan’s Psychiatric Hospital in Grangegorman between March 6 and March 7, 1997.