A former Huddersfield man is appearing in court this morning to stand trial accused of the double murder of two women 18 years ago in Ireland.
Mark Nash, 42, who grew up in Bradley before moving to Ireland in 1996, is charged with the murder of Sylvia Shields, 59, and Mary Callinan, 61, in 1997.
The two women were living in sheltered accommodation in a house attached to St Brendan’s Psychiatric Hospital in Grangegorman at the time.
Nash denies both the killings.
A jury of seven men and five women have been sworn in to hear the trial at Dublin’s Central Criminal Court.
The trial is likely to take between six and eight weeks.
