Graham Dwyer told a young woman he met on the internet that he had cut Elaine O'Hara during sex and that he had a fantasy about killing her, the Central Criminal Court has heard.
Darci Day gave evidence to the court via live television link from Maine in the US and said Mr Dwyer told her he cut Ms O’Hara in the stomach.
Asked by Seán Guerin SC, for the prosecution, what the circumstances were, Ms Day said “it was mutual and sexual”.
She said Mr Dwyer also told her Ms O’Hara asked him to kill her in the past. She said they shared their fantasies.
“His fantasy was basically wanting to stab a woman to death during sex,” Ms Day said.
Asked if he expressed any fantasies involving Ms O’Hara, she said he did. “He basically wanted to go after her and, if she wanted to, he’d want to kill her and then come after me,” she said.
Mr Dwyer (42), an architect from Kerrymount Close in Foxrock, is charged with murdering childcare worker Ms O’Hara (36) on August 22nd, 2012. He has pleaded not guilty.
Cross-examination
Ms Day said, under cross-examination from Remy Farrell SC, for the accused, that she didn’t believe Mr Dwyer would “do it”.
“I didn’t think he was actually serious about it . . . if I had any idea he was serious I would have done something about it,” she said.
By the end of her evidence, Ms Day was sobbing and frequently covered her face with her hands.
The young woman, who wore a T-shirt with a reference to God on it, and half-gloves that covered her wrist and palms, agreed she recently posted a YouTube video she made; Christian Deathcore POWERFUL Testimony-Suicide, self harm, HEALING in JESUS.
She said she did not include any details of the case in it.
“I made it to give people out there hope and courage,” she said.
She said she wanted to “say a huge prayer for the family of Elaine” and for “Graham” and for his family.
“I am so heartbroken, I feel so terrible . . . I just want to reach out and tell people from the bottom of my heart, I’m so sorry.”
