Confession was produced by gardaí, claims Nash

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.

Mark Nash, aged 42, who has last addresses at Prussia St and Clonliffe Rd in Dublin, has pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to the murder of Sylvia Shields, 60, and Mary Callanan, 61, between March 6 and 7, 1997.

In December 1999, now assistant commissioner Derek Byrne participated in an interview with Mr Nash at the Bridewell Garda Station concerning his confession to gardaí in Galway on August 16, 1997, to the murder of two women in Grangegorman.