Woman wore necklace with word ‘Ashling’ and her face was covered in ‘a lot of blood’, Garda tells court
A Garda has told the Ashling Murphy murder trial that he and a colleague did CPR for about ten minutes after locating the body of a woman in a ditch along the Grand Canal near Tullamore.
Through an interpreter, Mr Puska, a native of Slovakia living in Ireland 12 years, has denied the murder of Ms Murphy at Cappincur, Tullamore, on January 12th 2022. Once the call ended, he said he went to the detectives’ office in the station and said there was potentially a serious incident and asked for assistance.
He got out of the car, putting on disposable gloves as he did so, and went down to the body and began doing CPR, he said. Other gardaí had arrived and were seeking information.There was a lot of blood on her face, her hair was matted, it was kind of caught in the briars, he said. “There was an awful lot of blood.” Her top was a kind of camogie top, a local club one.
Garda Hunter said Garda Dunne told him and other gardaí about receiving a call on 15.35pm on January 12th 2022. He could see the matter was urgent and left the station with Garda Dunne. They met three females along the canal, slowed down the patrol car and the women, who were very distressed, directed them to an area. They went a bit further and saw two males, one whom he believed was Enda Molloy flagged them down, they stopped the car and told them to look down there.
He said the woman had a phone and a fitness app on which could be seen the duration of activity was one hour 24 minutes and 20 seconds and distance 3.2km. He noted the time on that app was 4.15pm. Emma Doyle, who is from the Tullamore area, said her parents and brother live near Cappincur and she went to their home on the afternoon of January 12th 2022. She went for a walk with her dog after 3pm.
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