Murderer Graham Dwyer had to be spoken to by his legal team today after he repeatedly interrupted his appeal hearing and denied that he texted his victim Elaine O'Hara that he would "love to stab a girl to death sometime" and that "blood turns me on".
Dwyer, 50, who was found guilty of murdering the vulnerable care worker for his sexual gratification in 2012, is appealing his conviction. His lawyers are arguing that the retention of mobile phone data used in the case is an "opportunistic form of mass surveillance" that transforms phones into tracking devices that can reveal a detailed picture of every aspect of a person's life.
At the Court of Appeal today, Dwyer repeatedly interrupted Sean Guerin SC, for the DPP, to deny text messages attributed to him. Mr Guerin was drawing the court's attention to a June 27, 2011, text message which was sent from a phone attributed to Dwyer that read: "I want to stick my knife in flesh while sexually aroused. Blood turns me on and I would love to stab a girl to death sometime."
