Graham Dwyer’s sister not familiar with 083 phone

The sister of Graham Dwyer has said she was not familiar with an address connected with a mobile phone at the central of her brother's trial.

Mandy Wroblewski was questioned by Seán Guerin SC about whether she was familiar with a phone with an 083 number and was asked about her address.

The 083 phone had been purchased under the name “Garoon Caisholn” of Oak Lawn, Clerihan, Tipperary, the court had heard.

Mr Dwyer (42), Kerrymount Close, Foxrock, Dublin, is charged with murdering childcare worker Elaine O’Hara (36) on August 22nd, 2012. He has pleaded not guilty.

Ms O’Hara’s remains were found in forestry on Killakee mountain, Rathfarnham, on September 13th, 2013.

Mr Guerin asked Ms Wroblewski to write down her home address. This was shown to the judge and to the jury, although it was not read out in court.

He then asked if her address was sometimes incorrect on post, including birthday and anniversary cards, sent to her from her brother.

She said sometimes the “4” could be missing or her surname could be spelt wrong.

Mr Guerin reminded her of a statement she gave to gardaí on October 31st, 2013, in which she said the address could be written as “Oak Park” or “Oak” or “Oak Lawn”. It could also appear as “4 Oak” or “4 Oak Lawn” and it sometimes said “Clerihan”, leaving out the “Bally”, while sometimes it did not always include Clonmel.

She said she did not know anyone called “Garoon Caisholn” and she did not know an “Oak Lawn” address in her area.

Ms Wroblewski said she could not say who addressed the envelopes on the cards that were sent, as Mr Dwyer’s handwriting and the handwriting of his wife Gemma were “kind of similar”.

Also giving evidence, Jacqui Marks from Paypoint, which operates terminals in shops for services including phone credit, gave evidence of two top-up purchases.

These were on December 30th, 2011, at 10.35am and August 17th, 2012, at 8.47pm. Both were bought at Robertson’s Newsagents, Blackrock.

Sgt Niall Duffy, of the Garda telecommunications section, gave evidence of examining devices related to the case.

These included two water-damaged Nokia mobile phones, a TomTom satellite navigation device, an iPhone 4, a HTC 1S mobile phone and a four gigabyte memory card.

He produced reports on each device, he said, and provided them to gardaí.

He was also asked to look at a Tesco Sim card, but said it was “extremely water damaged” and he was unable to examine it.

Exhibits officer Garda Timothy McAuliffe told the court he dealt with 1,165 exhibits related to the case, including six electronic devices seized – two Nokia mobile phones, an iPhone 4 with a cracked screen, an iPhone 4S, a blue Hewlett Packard netbook and an Apple MacBook.

He said no unauthorised persons had access to the exhibits and they were held in a secure storage area.

The trial continues.