Killer guilty of ‘cold case’ murders

Convicted double murderer Mark Nash has been found guilty of the “cold case” murder of two women, whose mutilated bodies were found in their sheltered accommodation in Grangegorman in Dublin nearly 20 years ago.

Nash is already serving a double life sentence in Arbour Hill Prison since October 1998 for murdering two people in Ballintober, Castlerea in Roscommon and leaving Sarah Jane Doyle seriously injured in mid-August in 1997.

Nash, aged 42, was found guilty by a jury at the Central Criminal Court to the murder of Sylvia Sheils, 59, and Mary Callanan, 61, between March 6-7, 1997.