High Court’s praise of gardaí a factor in killer’s appeal hearing

‘Painstaking investigation, while having regard to privacy rights as then understood, was impressive’

The landmark High Court ruling on data retention, which will be used by Graham Dwyer in his murder appeal, was highly complimentary of gardaí involved in accessing and analysing his mobile phone data.

Legal experts believe that a key assessment for the Court of Appeal in deciding whether to accept Dwyer’s application that the mobile phone data should not be accepted as evidence will be to determine if the accessing of the data was a “deliberate and conscious” violation of his rights.