Double murderer Nash denied transfer application

Double murderer Mark Nash has lost his High Court application to be transferred to an English prison to serve his two life sentences…

Double murderer Mark Nash has lost his High Court application to be transferred to an English prison to serve his two life sentences for the murder of his former girlfriends's sister and her husband in the west of Ireland.

Nash, who was born in Ballina, Co Mayo, but who spent most of his life in England, had requested a transfer in 1999 on the grounds that he wished to be near family and friends.

Today's ruling upheld a refusal by the then Minister for Justice, Mr John O'Donoghue, to grant Nash's application in 2001.

Mr Justice Nicholas Kearns' noted that the DPP had decided not to prefer charges against Nash for the murder of two elderly women in Grangegorman.

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