Serial killer Nash will be caged for REST of his life..
Monster’s frenzied attack appeal rejected by judges
Vile killer Mark Nash Nash cries as he is led from court in Galway in 2015
Sylvia Sheils on CCTV before attack Gardai outside house where women were killed CAMPAIGN Sylvia’s sister Stella Nolan EVIL serial killer Mark Nash will never be freed from prison as he has lost his appeal for the horrific murder of two vulnerable women.
The 44-year-old was found guilty in 2015 of murdering Sylvia Sheils, 59, and 61-year-old Mary Callahan in March 1997.
The killings were carried out by Nash in one of the most horrific series of incidents in Irish criminal history.
The two women were in staying at a terraced house, in sheltered accommodation used by St Brendan’s Psychiatric Hospital for patients.
The court previously heard Ms Shiels and Ms Callinan were found dead by another resident of Orchard View, Grangegorman, North Dublin.
What gardai found was a scene akin to an abattoir.
Nash had carried out a frenzied attack, stabbing the women and slashing their throats and faces. He also mutilated their genital areas.
While both women were partially clothed there was no evidence of sexual assault.
State Pathologist Dr John Harbison stated in his report “these injuries were outside my experience in 26 years of pathology practice”.
In a strange twist another man, Dean Lyons, had made a false confession to the murders which he later retracted.
UNANIMOUS
A Central Criminal Court jury unanimously found Nash guilty after a 48-day trial and he was given the mandatory life sentence by Mr Justice Carroll Moran on April 20, 2015.
The killer was originally from England but his last addresses were at Prussia Street and Clonliffe Road in Dublin.
He had already been serving life since October 1998 for murdering two people in Ballintober, Castlerea, Co Roscommon, in August 1997.
The four murders were committed in the space of five months. At the Court of Appeal Mr Justice Alan Mahon rejected his case on all grounds and said it was the “strong view” of the three judges that Nash’s trial for the Grangegorman murders was “entirely fair”.
Mr Justice Mahon, who sat with Mr Justice John Edwards and Mr Justice Michael White, said none of the grounds of appeal had been upheld. Nash was not in court for the delivery of the judgment.
Mr Justice Mahon added the level of violence perpetrated on two defenceless women was so fierce that perhaps the victims’ own appreciation of their fate was short lived.