Clothing linked to ‘spectacular breakthrough’ in double murder

A Garda chief superintendent told a murder trial yesterday that he retrieved clothing from the home of a man accused of murdering two women 18 years ago.

The prosecution has claimed that DNA evidence recovered from a jacket provided “ a spectacular breakthrough” in the case.

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, aged 60, and Mary Callanan, aged 61, at sheltered accommodation in Grangegorman between March 6 and March 7, 1997.