GRAHAM DWYER: WHY I’LL BE FREED
In chilling prison letters to au pair, Elaine O’Hara’s killer reveals he: ■ Plans to use controversial comments by State Pathologist to overturn murder conviction ■ Will ‘buy Dr Marie Cassidy a pint’ ■ Flirts constantly ■ Calls himself ‘50 Shades of G
GRAHAM Dwyer has boasted from prison that he will be freed later this year, claiming statements by State Pathologist Marie Cassidy will help him secure his appeal.
He made the claims in a series of letters to a young female pen pal in Dublin.
The depraved south Dublin architect, who is serving life in jail for the sickening killing of Elaine O’Hara, oozes confidence in his letters and repeatedly maintains his innocence, while admitting to ‘extreme sex’.
He wrote to the student: ‘I will buy Dr Cassidy a pint and take you out to celebrate!! He he.’
He was referring to comments by the pathologist that she had believed a not-guilty verdict would
be returned in his case due to a lack of physical evidence.
It’s unclear if Dr Cassidy will be called as a witness in Dwyer’s appeal.
He also denied involvement in other crimes he’s been linked to in the press.
He wrote to the British student, who is also an au pair: ‘There won’t be any evidence of any crimes, as I didn’t commit any! Just extreme sex stuff that shocked the journalists and jury! 50 shades of Graham! I always want to be the best I can be, whatever I do!’ This was followed by a smiley face.
The sex killer said he spends much of his time working on his appeal and has three solicitors and four barristers.
In a letter sent last November he wrote: ‘I am waiting to get access to my legal docs on my laptop to get cracking on both my appeal and the 7-day High Court challenge against a number of things.’
He said he had a list of five points to argue but ‘there are actually 12’, and added: ‘On November 13th I am getting a draft of the “big” submission that warns the DPP what points of law we will be arguing, but I can tell you here... [there is] no evidence any crime was committed. I have to make notes, and return them to the barristers on the 20th of November so that will be a busy week, no bass playing or playstation!! Ha Ha!’
Keeping the upbeat mood, the murderer convicted in a case that shocked the nation added: ‘I will get a date for next year (2016) but I need my computer first! If it was submitted now, I would expect to get a date around April ’16 but given the way things are going, maybe a few months after.’
Dwyer also asked the young woman to visit him in prison and hoped she would attend his appeal. He wrote: ‘You can come along and I will blow you a kiss! Ha! The judge will love that!!!’
The father-of-three was found guilty last March of murdering childcare assistant Ms O’Hara, who had a mental illness. He left her body in the Dublin Mountains. The most shocking trial in the history of the State heard of Dwyer’s S&M relationship with his victim and how he murdered her for his own sexual gratification.
Asked to analyse Dwyer’s letters, American psychotherapist Dr Robi Ludwig told MoS: ‘He definitely has an agenda, his mindset is he is not guilty. I don’t see any signs of depression. He’s focused on his goal, he’s on a mission, he’s feeling positive.’ She added that if you are wrongfully convicted ‘it’s not
a happy place’. She said: ‘He’s taking action, he’s on a mission, he’s working with people, he’s flirting and you’re not depressed if you’re flirting. I think he loves the attention, and at another level, if you are into sadomasochism, for him this is the masochistic part, getting punished and waiting to get out.’
The letters also reveal what life is like in jail for him. From his single cell in the Midlands Prison, where he plays guitar with the prison group, he has let his hair grow long and has become a vegetarian. The 43year-old has also been penning letters to female fans all over the country. In fact, he gets between five and seven letters a month from outside his family circle.
Nicknamed ‘Jonathan Ross’ and ‘Steven Seagal’ by other inmates, because of his occasional ponytail hairstyle, the killer says ‘meditation and patience’ help him. One letter included a newspaper photo of him on which he drew long hair. He signed off: ‘Wish me luck, from Graham’. Followed by kisses and a smiley face. He wrote that the main points of appeal include texts between him and Ms O’Hara.
There was no murder weapon, cause of death or witnesses in a case where the prosecution presented thousands of messages between their phones. Phone records are another point of appeal.
In June last year, Dr Cassidy told medical students she had not expected the jury’s guilty verdict, given there was no cause of death.
‘For him punishment
is masochistic’