Murder accused Graham Dwyer is alleged to have sent Elaine O’Hara a text message telling her he was her “secret killer”, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

Dozens of text messages sent between Ms O’Hara’s iPhone and an 083 number alleged to have been used by Mr Dwyer were read to the jury in courtroom 13.

Mr Justice Tony Hunt allowed members of the public back in to the court room, after earlier clearing the public gallery so video clips of Mr Dwyer either having sex or apparently stabbing women could be shown to the jury.

The texts were read out on the 32nd day of the trial at the Central Criminal Court.

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Mr Dwyer (42), an architect of Kerrymount Close, Foxrock, is pleading not guilty to the murder of Ms O’Hara (36), a childcare assistant, at Killakee, Rathfarnham on August 22, 2012.

Her remains were found by a dog walker in undergrowth in the Dublin mountains on September 13, 2013.

The prosecution maintains Mr Dwyer killed her for his own sexual gratification.

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Crime analyst Sarah Skedd handed a booklet to the judge and jury which included hundreds of text messages she retrieved from five mobile telephones which the prosecution claims are central to the murder trial.

Sean Guerin SC, prosecuting, then started to read dozens of the messages between Ms O’Hara’s iPhone 086 3311207and the number 083 1103474, a prepaid phone purchased by a “Goroon Caisholm” which the prosecution claims was being used by Mr Dwyer.

Mr Guerin referred to the 083 number as ‘he’ throughout the evidence.

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“Hi Elaine, hope you are keeping well,” said the first message on March 25, 2011, at 3.22pm.

“Who’s this please,” she replied.

“Sorry I may have the wrong number, is this Elaine O’Hara?,” he texted.

“I don’t have your number programmed in, who is this,” she replied.

“This is an old friend ;-) (wink). We used to play together and I miss it terribly. Would love to catch up,” he said.

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Mr Guerin said that the man eventually told Ms O’Hara it was ‘David’ on the phone.

“Yes it is you, I knew it,” she replied, quickly adding: “I’m not in to blood anymore.”

Mr Guerin read several more texts where the man told Ms O’Hara about there’s “a girl in USA asked me to do something you asked me”, adding if she wanted to chat.

The pair arranged to meet at the shop under her apartment in Stepaside and it appeared from the messages the relationship reignited, with them discussing the birth of his baby daughter.

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At one point later that week Ms O’Hara texted: “Sir. I have to be honest. There’s someone else. It’s very early in the relationship but if it comes down to it I would choose him over you. I hope you don’t mind.”

He replies: “Like waiting for the 46A lol."

“I don’t mind as long as he always wears a condom, I don’t have to wear one if I pull out. He can’t use my knife or balaclava. He can’t know about me in case I have to end it.

“You deserve a full time master I’m your secret killer.”

The texts read to the jury spanned form March 25 to April 11, 2011, during which time the man and Ms O’Hara has appeared to have met several times for BDSM relations.

Ms O’Hara tells the man that she “always has dark thoughts, but is able to cope with them now” and that she “is not promising anything”.

The man, who said he got the new phone and number as they “can’t be traced” asked Ms O’Hara.

“Did you ever think I would surprise you and end it all?”.

“No, I knew you wouldn’t,” she replied.

She later texts: “You have me frazzled now. I never expected to hear from you again.”

They appeared to meet the following day, March 26, 2011, and the next day she texts that the punch “is killing” her.

“Sir, just to let you know, I don’t expect you to answer all my texts, also wanted to let you know u can use me for what you want, but I’ll use you for what I want,” she sends the next day.

Again, on March 28, she asks: “Any news on baby?”.

“Not yet, has to happen this week, any time now, when are you free next?,” he replies.

Ms O’Hara complains about “terrible bruises on my wrists” adding they’re “killing me, I can’t wear my watch”.

Speaking ahead of their next meeting he says: “I will get plastic knife, you get key, looking forward to the violence.

“I will try to keep the cuts and bruises under your clothes :-) (smiley face)”.

The man asks her several times for a key to her apartment and asked her to “stop putting on the dead lock, so I can slip in while you’re asleep and rape/stab you”.

When she tells him about seeing someone else she said she is certain he won’t know about the texter.

“The more male DNA and fingerprints in your flat the better. Get his prints on your kitchen knife,” he adds.

Ms O’Hara says the man is nice and the texter tells her to string him along and “if he gives you any trouble we can kill him.”

“See you tomorrow. My urge to rape, stab and kill is huge. You have to help me control or satisfy it,” the texter adds.

“Control sir, not satisfy,” Ms O’Hara replied.

“Acting them with you helps a lot,” he added.

The pair arranged to meet again with Ms O’Hara asking: “Sir would u mind if it’s not real heavy today. I’ve an inspector tomorrow.”

On March 29 a message is sent from an 085 number asking: “You still on – wife not in labour or anything?”

He replies: “So far so good. Got fake knives.”

“Lucky me,” she says.

“Lucky you if I don’t use the other one,” he replied.

A message on March 30 says: “Went well today sir, I take it you are now a daddy again thanks for last night sir, really needed it.”

A reply the following morning says: “Yes, beautiful baby girl (name) glad you enjoy the other night, many more session to come, see you sometime over the weekend.”

She complains of bruising to her body and neck and the next day he replied: “Don’t worry about marks. Sudacream a night. We will put arnica on in the morning,” adding that she can wear “polonecks like me”

The texts continue between Ms O’Hara and the 083 number, which see her asking about “that one in USA”.

He says: "That will cost thousands, can’t wait that long to sink my knife in to flesh and see blood pour.”

“Well sir, you might not have any choice, you might just have to wait, you’re not getting me. Never again,” Ms O’Hara replied.

In another text he says: “I want you to pretend you want me to stab you or someone. It turns me on. You can send me texts like that to arouse and excite me, ok?”

“OK I’ll think about it,” she said.

They discuss a “bath rape” which was “excellent” and how he wants to find a suitcase she can fit in.

“You are going to drive yourself crazy thinking about these things all the time, just enjoy what you have. It’s easier,” she says.

“Stab stab stab rape kill!” he replied.

“Grow up sir,” she replies, and he tells her she will be “punished” the next day for that.

“Do you like the idea of being smuggled out in a suitcase? It’ll be fun, you will be ok. You will have an air hole,” he asks.

“I’d like to see u try?,” she replied.

“You would be tied up inside, suitcase in car, off to the woods for play and a burial,” he said.

“In your dreams sir, in your dreams,” she replies.

She cancels a meeting on April 1 as she is ill and in reply to her on April 2 he texts: “Thanks for getting keys, stuck here with people visiting baby what other time you free.”

The following morning they arrange for the texter to visit her apartment at 2pm.

“Leave everything dark. Be naked in bed pretending to be in deep sleep x,” he texts 20 minutes before he arrived.

At 2.50pm Ms O’Hara texts: “Sorry sir, can I take off my cuffs sir?”

“Not till 4pm as punishment,” he replied.

“OK sir, thank you sir, do I have to leave the collar on sir,” she asks.

“Thank you for not leaving marks sir,” she later texts,

“Sir I’ve marks on my neck again, please sir it can’t happen, the neck is one place that is seen by everyone.”

The next morning, April 4, he replies asks how her neck is sore, tells her to get arnica cream, adding: “Hope your ass is sore this morning”.

“Sir the marks are from you pretending to cut me. Your blades are sharp. So if you hit off my skin it leaves a mark. Yes I am sore, I’m bleeding,” she replies.

She later tells the man about her going to see the Sound of Music with her father as a belated birthday present, and she again talks about being ill, not going to college and asks about the baby and another person, whose name was not said in court.

The man states that he is at a committee meeting that night.

“Was thinking of your problem last night. I think going to USA too dangerous. Police are very good over there,” she later texted.

“You’ll get caught I’m sure of it.”

“I’ll have to do it over here, but how,” he asks.

She replied: “I’m thinking about that. Haven’t thought about it in a long time so I’m starting from the beginning.”

The pair discuss other BDSM meetings they appear to have had.

“I’m bored, my job is so boring,” she texts one day.

“Your job should be getting tied up and raped,” he replied.

“I wish sir,” she said,

She later asks: “Sir would u be able to come tonight and chain me for the night please.”

“I could but can’t release you in the morning,” he said.

“But why sir,” she asks.

“I’ve crèche run and meetings in the morning,” the texter replies.

Mr Guerin read text messages sent on the morning of April 8 in which Ms O’Hara asks the man to “check someone out for me” – who Mr Guerin said was Robert Cullen Jones, a former witness in the trial.

“Yes, I love stalking. Who? Want them killed?,” he replied.

“No, not killed lol,” she said.

They also discussed a stabbing in Dublin the night before and how the “guy got away clean”.

“I’m watching the case with interest. She’s still alive. Big mistake leaving a witness. I would love to have been the one knifing her,” he texts.

“Can you imagine the knife going in and out of her, all the blood. Must have been a fantastic feeling for him, lucky guy x.”

Ms O’Hara said: “You are sick, very sick.”

“So are you, I know u wouldn’t want me any other way,” he replied.

“I’m going to do it, you have to help me or it will be you.”

She said: “No you’re not, you’ve been talking about it for so long and no action. You are never going to do it.”

“It sounds like a dare! I have to do it now to impress my sub,” he replied.

They text about tying Ms O’Hara up for a night and one morning a text from her phone reads: “Sir, did you think of me tied up last night when you were home.”

She also said her dad’s girlfriend saw the marks and admits she having a “too lazy to get up to smoke day” so she smoked in her living room.

“Don’t smoke in your apartment,” a reply read the following morning.

Another day he reminds her: “If you do decide to end it one day you’ve to promise me I can send you off.

“I will try, you know that when someone wants to do it it’s very quick. It’s all the planning that you do that is off putting,” she replied.

She claims that when she was ready to 'end it all' before he wasn’t ready and he replied that he is now.

“All you have to do is get in the car and I will do the rest. It will be painless,” he texts, later adding how he would use chloroform or sleeping tablets to make her unconscious.

“But will u tell me when so I can prepare myself for it,” she says later in the conversation.

“Really? You’d let me kill u against your will?,” she said.

“Oh sir, you will never kill me against my will. You’ve left too much evidence at my place. I’m not very good at cleaning,” she texts.

“I am,” he replies.

In another text Ms O’Hara complains how she was left with “water blisters and tie marks” from ties and he replied “will use cuffs or tapes instead of ties”.

“Killing is my new goal, not extreme control,” the man texts, later saying that Ms O’Hara put the thought in his head since she asked him.

She says she likes the new him and asked “do you like the new me sir?”.

“Yes and no,” he replies, adding: “I preferred it when you let me stick my knife in you, and smoking is disgusting.”

“You can’t have it all sir,” she replies, inquiring if he had “any more info on your man” (Cullen Jones).

“Fair point. Wish I could stab u though :-( (unhappy smiley face),” he replies.

“I know,” said Ms O’Hara.

“I can and will have it all. No I haven’t done any more stalking,” the texter adds.

The trial before Mr Justice Tony Hunt and a jury of seven men and five women continues.

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