Jury in Nash trial retires to consider verdict

The jury in the trial of a 42-year-old man accused of murdering two women eighteen years ago has retired to consider its verdict.

Mark Nash, who has last addresses at Prussia Street and Clonliffe Road in Dublin, has pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to the murder of 60-year-old Sylvia Shields and 61-year old Mary Callanan between 6 and 7 March 1997.

The trial has heard the two women were living in sheltered accommodation in a house attached to St Brendan's Psychiatric Hospital in Grangegorman at the time.