A ‘sadistic and brutal pervert’

Text messages from Graham Dywer to Elaine O’ Hara reveal a deep-seated irrepressible desire for sexual gratification by stabbing, writes Noel Baker.

‘MY URGE to rape, stab, and kill is huge,’ the message read. ‘You have to help me control or satisfy it.’

According to the senior counsel for the prosecution, Sean Guerin, on the opening day of the trial, Graham Dwyer’s messages to Elaine O’Hara reflected “a deep-seated, passionately held, irrepressible desire … to get sexual gratification by stabbing.”