Women’s DNA found on Nash jacket

DNA profiles from two women killed in Grangegorman nearly 20 years ago were found on a jacket belonging to murder accused Mark Nash in 2009, a jury has heard.

Mark Nash has pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to the murder of Sylvia Shields and Mary Callanan between March 6 -7, 1997.

Linda Williams, of Forensic Science Ireland, said on September 29, 2009, she received three self sealed plastic bags containing thread and buttons belonging to the right cuff of Mr Nash’s black pin-striped velvet jacket from Bríd McBride, also of the FSI.