MUM’S LUCKY ESCAPE FROM SEX KILLER DWYER
Woman haunted by brush with monster before he murdered Elaine
A MUM has told how she escaped the clutches of evil sex killer Graham Dwyer before he stabbed tragic Elaine O’hara.
The sick architect, 45, had contacted the married woman on Facebook offering to help with plans to build a house in a remote area.
She told the Irish Sunday Mirror: “When I heard he’d been arrested, and what for, I just thought ‘thank God I’m not buried up there’.”
WOMAN FEARS EVIL SEX BEAST TARGETED HER FOR ATTACK When he’d been arrested I just thought ‘thank God I’m not buried up there’
MARRIED MUM ON FINDING OUT ABOUT DWYER’S ARREST
A MARRIED mother has told how she had a “lucky escape” from depraved sex killer Graham Dwyer a year before he stabbed Elaine O’hara to death.
The sick architect, 45, contacted her out of the blue on Facebook in 2011 and offered to help with plans to build a house on a remote, isolated piece of land.
Depraved Dwyer was caged for life in 2015 for killing care worker Elaine whose remains were discovered in September 2013, a year after she disappeared.
Now the woman who crossed his path has revealed that she fears Dwyer may have been eyeing up other victims and planning to bury them on the fiveacre holding.
She told the Irish Sunday Mirror: “He came down every weekend on the train to visit the site. There was a big hole dug in 2010 for percolation.
“Dwyer would have had access to that and he went up to the site a few times on his own. It was very remote, very isolated, and it has a lake and bogland down the end of it.
“It just struck me as unusual the way he was so keen to help. I offered payment and he said he would only take money once the planning went through.”
The first planning application was turned down and the woman and her family moved away shorty afterwards. The site has since been sold.
She said: “When I heard he’d been arrested, and what for, I just thought, ‘thank God I’m not buried up there’.
“I would have been up there some summer evenings late with him. It makes my blood run cold. It was so remote nobody would ever hear a thing.
“He would often come down on the train and go up on his own taking lots of photographs. Then it came out in court that he’d been checking out isolated sites.
“I thought to myself, ‘Is that why he was helping us out and looking at the land? Thank God we didn’t go any further with it’.
“Maybe he was planning to bury somebody up there. I never liked going up there after that. It was very eerie, creepy.
“I couldn’t believe what came out in court. He was very polite, very clever. You’d never hear him using bad language. But he must be very warped to do that. “I had a lucky escape.” Twisted Dwyer killed 36-year-old Elaine to satisfy a “deep-seated” desire to stab a woman to death during sex.
Dwyer’s trial heard that the victim’s sister, two estate agents and a homeless woman were on a list of potential victims to be tortured and killed.
The rape, stabbing and killing of two of Elaine’s neighbours, plus a prostitute, or a random woman out walking or jogging in a remote area were also considered by him. Evidence outlined how he spoke of luring a woman back to Elaine’s place before knocking her out, stripping her, tying her up, gagging her and laying out his knives. The trial heard how he also considered raping and strangling her Asian neighbour, who he met in a lift, before burying her body in the woods. One woman on the list was just “unfortunate enough” to work opposite Dwyer’s office on Dublin’s Baggot Street. The young female auctioneer was considered by him after he found out she was selling a property in Cabinteely in Dublin’s southside. Dwyer also detailed in a four-page story how he would rape and knife a young American woman he met online.
He wrote about stabbing her to death in the woods before having sex with her corpse, ejaculating in a stab wound in her stomach and burying her.
The trial also heard of another detailed first-person story of rape and torture in which Dwyer told how he abducted a woman at knifepoint and took her to a hotel room. There he knocked her out with chloroform, tied her up and, when she regained consciousness, he raped her repeatedly at knifepoint. He said to her: “You make a sound or try to escape and I’ll cut your f**king throat right now and ride your corpse.” Earlier this month
Dwyer won a legal battle over data from mobile phones which helped convict him – though experts say he is “unlikely” to win an appeal.
The High Court found Irish legislation used to access Dwyer’s phone records contravene EU law and the European Convention on Human Rights. Gardai obtained information pin-pointing the killer under 2011 legislation brought in after a European Directive obliging service providers to keep data for two years.
But the directive was declared invalid by the Court of Justice of the European Union in 2014.
Dwyer, who was not present in court for the decision, will now use the High Court’s findings as part of his appeal against his conviction.
However, Mr Justice Tony O’connor said it was not an automatic consequence of its decision that any convictions would be quashed.
On Thursday the killer’s case was in the High Court where it was put back until January 11 when a number of issues will be dealt with. These include State submissions as well as the possibility of an appeal by Dwyer.
He was very polite and very clever.. but must have been warped to do that
WOMAN RECALLS MEETING WITH DWYER AT THE SITE