Killer architect graham dwyer was working in mullingar at time of arrest

The 42-year-old architect Graham Dwyer, convicted on Friday last of the murder of Dublin woman Elaine O’Hara, was working in Mullingar at the time of his arrest, it has emerged.
During the course of the nine-week murder trial at Dublin’s Criminal Courts of Justice, a garda witness revealed that the defendant was engaged on a project in Mullingar.
On March 12, Detective Sergeant Woods, in his evidence to the trial, recounted before Mr Justice Tony Hunt, details of his interviews with Mr Dwyer.
Detective Sergeant Woods described how he asked Mr Dwyer various questions about his work history, which included time spent as a computer programmer; and about locations at which he had worked.
Mr Dwyer told of working in Poland, as well as of working on projects in Carlow, at the town’s Institute of Technology, and said “at the moment, I am working in Mullingar”.
Miss O’Hara, who met with the Cork native through an “alternative lifestyles” website in 2007, went missing on August 22, 2012, after leaving her home at Stepaside to visit her mother’s grave at Shanganagh Cemetery.
Items recovered from Vartry Reservoir in Dublin over a year later included a key fob, with a Dunnes Stores loyalty card attached, which proved to belong to Miss O’Hara.
In a remarkable coincidence, remains had been uncovered just days earlier, at a different location, Killakee Forest in the Dublin Mountains, which, when analysed, were found to be of the missing woman.
The state relied heavily on mobile phone messages to build the case against Mr Dwyer, and also used mobile phone signals to establish his location at certain dates crucial to establishing that it was he who was messaging Ms O’Hara.
A married man, and a father of three, Mr Dwyer is to be sentenced on April 20.