Series of amazing coincidences if Nash is not guilty, jury told

The prosecution counsel in the trial of a man accused of murdering two women 18 years ago has told the jury that if the accused is not guilty, there are a series of “truly amazing coincidences”.

Mark Nash, aged 42, who has last addresses at Prussia St and Clonliffe Road 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 March 7, 1997.

The trial has heard the two women were living in sheltered accommodation in a house attached to St Brendan’s Psychiatric Hospital in Grangegorman.