A jury has heard gardai found hacksaw blades, harness type equipment, twine, cable ties and clothes in a wooded area close to where Elaine O'Hara's remains were found.

Architect Graham Dwyer of Kerrymount Close, Foxrock denies murdering the 36 year old childcare worker at Killakee, Rathfarnham on August 22nd, 2012.

The jury's heard Elaine O'Hara's skeletal remains were found by a dog walker in the Dublin mountains more than a year after her disappearance.

Today gardai gave evidence about the items found at various sites during follow up searches in Killakee in September 2013.

A shovel, a sock and a rusty blade were located - in another forested area members of the garda technical bureau seized what they called harness type equipment, cable ties, twine, hacksaw blades, clothes including cycling shorts and a white T-shirt.

Earlier forensic anthropologist Noreen Buckley gave evidence to the jury that Elaine O'Hara's remains were in undergrowth but they were not buried.

The prosecution alleges Graham Dwyer had a sado-masochistic relationship with the 36 year old and stabbed her for his own sexual gratification.

The 36 year old childcare worker was last seen near Shanganagh cemetery in Dublin on the evening of August 22nd 2012.

Her partial remains along with tracksuit bottoms, and a runner were found by a dogwalker in a rough wooded area of the Dublin mountains on September 13th the following year.

Gardai have this morning given evidence of preserving the scene – the defence does not deny that the bones found were those of Elaine O'Hara.

The dogwalker Magali Vergnet said she also saw a rusted knife but gardai who initially attended the scene said they don't recall being made aware of this.