Sadistic sex killer Graham Dwyer is writing a book behind bars as he awaits his appeal verdict.
The former architect has kept details of the manuscript closely guarded, but sources believe it is a tell-all book on his murder case. In April 2015, Dwyer was handed a life sentence, which he is serving on the G2 Wing in the Midlands Prison, Portlaoise.
A source told the Sunday Mirror how depraved Dwyer has been spending every spare moment writing. It is believed the murderer has even requested access to a laptop to type up his book from the jail governor.
The source said: “Dwyer has always been known to keep busy, whether it’s working away on his appeal case or playing music in the prison rock band. Over the last number of weeks he has been busy starting to write a book in his cell.
“The exact concept of it is unknown but it’s believed to centre around his life, the trial and his life in prison. A tell-all book from his own perspective.
“He is filling the hours as he awaits a decision on his appeal. If he is granted permission to use a laptop to type it up he will not have access to the internet. It will be purely to type it up.
“As criminals cannot make any money from the proceeds of crime he will not be paid a cent for the book if it is about the case or the crime he was found guilty of.”
The 50-year-old is currently waiting to hear the verdict of his appeal case. In December, a judge threatened to have Dwyer removed from court after he kept interrupting proceedings to deny he had sent text messages linked to his conviction.
He had to be spoken to by his legal team during the second day of his appeal hearing, after he denied texting to his victim Elaine O’Hara that he would “love to stab a girl to death sometime” and that “blood turns me on”.
Read more: Killer Graham Dwyer interrupts lawyer three times during appeal
Mr Sean Guerin, for the DPP, was drawing the court’s attention to a text message which was sent from a phone attributed to Dwyer on June 27, 2011, that read: “I want to stick my knife in flesh while sexually aroused. Blood turns me on and I’d love to stab a girl to death sometime.”
Dwyer interrupted: “I didn’t say any of that.”
Mr Guerin said one message from Dwyer to 36-year-old Ms O’Hara read that if anyone asked who was texting her, she should tell them it was her brother. “I never wrote that,” the killer again interrupted.
Following the two interruptions, Court of Appeal President George Birmingham addressed Dwyer’s barrister, Remy Farrell SC, and said: “Mr Farrell, we have ignored one interruption. If there is another he will be removed to the cells.”
Lawyers for Dwyer, who murdered vulnerable care worker Elaine O’Hara for his sexual gratification in 2012, argued the retention of mobile
phone data used in the case was an “opportunistic form of mass surveillance”.
Mr Guerin SC, for the State, said there was still “overwhelming” evidence that Dwyer was the user of the phone central to the case. And he said there were four elements to the DPP’s case at the trial that had not changed.
He said: “The first point was that [Dwyer] was the author of the messages, and connected to Ms O’Hara.The second thing we sought to do was to show the desires expressed in the text messages were real and reflected the intention to kill.
“Thirdly, that the circumstances of Ms O’Hara disappearance and
death could only be explained by the realisation of that intention.
“The fourth element was to eliminate any other possibility, in this case suicide, as an explanation.” Following the appeal, Mr Justice Birmingham told both sides not to expect a judgement “imminently”.
Meanwhile, Dwyer is still receiving a large amount of “fan mail” into the prison, some with accompanying sexual photos deemed too explicit for him to be allowed. A source added: “Dwyer still gets a lot of letters from female admirers. People from all over the world write to him including from America and Canada.
“There have been a number of letters received which included photos which were intercepted and not allowed to be given to him as they were deemed to be too sexually explicit.”
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