Dwyer’s sister quizzed on mobile phones and gives sample of writing

The jury in the Graham Dwyer murder case yesterday heard from his sister.

Mandy Wroblewski was asked to write down her address on a piece of paper, which was handed into court, shown to both sides and to the jury. She was asked if it would have been common to receive communication from her brother by post.

“Birthday cards, anniversary cards to myself or my husband,” she replied.

She was further asked if there would be any mistakes in the address and said that sometimes the number would be missing. “There could be misspellings,” she added, explaining this could be in any part of the address but mostly her surname.

She confirmed she had told gardaí the first line of her address would sometimes be incorrect and that a part would sometimes be missing from the name of the village.

She wasn’t in a position to say who had written the addresses as, she said, his and his wife’s handwriting were similar.

She said the number she had for her brother was 087 2100407 and the only phone she remembered him having was a HTC phone; she never remembered seeing him with a Nokia.

She was asked about an 083 number previously mentioned in the trial. She didn’t recognise it. She was told it was registered to a person called Goroon Caisholn and was shown the address to which it was registered.

She said she didn’t know anybody by that name and didn’t recognise the first line of the address as being in her area.

She was shown the 086 number given at the time the 083 number was purchased.

She agreed it was similar to her brother’s number apart from one digit. She didn’t know anyone with that number.

Ms Wroblewski agreed with Remy Farrell SC, defending, sometimes her village would be referred to by only half its name. He gave the example of Castlecomer being referred to as Comer. “Correct,” she said.

Mr Dwyer, 42, is charged with murdering Elaine O’Hara at Killakee, Rathfarnham on August 22, 2012, hours after she was discharged from a mental health hospital.

The Cork-born father-of-three of Kerrymount Close, Foxrock, Dublin, has pleaded not guilty to murdering the 36-year-old childcare worker.

The trial continues before Mr Justice Tony Hunt and a jury of five women and seven men.