Relentlessly exploited all the way to her death

Graham Dwyer saw his victim as nothing more than an object to fulfil a depraved fantasy, writes Michael Clifford.

Beyond the voyeurism, the disturbing sex, the forensic policework, this was a story of a woman whose vulnerabilities were relentlessly exploited all the way to her murder.

This was a story about Elaine O’Hara, a human being on whom fate did not bestow many conventional gifts, or bless with much luck, despite coming from a loving family.