Jozef Puska faces mandatory life sentence after jury returned guilty verdict at Central Criminal Court
Ashling Murphy, a primary school teacher and musician, was killed while out for a run near her home town of Tullamore, Co Offaly, in January 2022 Photograph: Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann/PA
Jozef Puska had denied the murder of the 23-year-old school teacher at Grand Canal Way, Cappincur, Co Offaly, on January 12th, 2022. Ms Murphy had 11 stab wounds in the right side of her neck which caused acute blood loss and her heart to stop.Ashling Murphy murder trial: No evidence that admission by accused was related to the effects of any drug, jury toldThe jury of nine men and three women were asked by Mr Justice Tony Hunt at 3.35pm on Wednesday to begin their deliberations but were sent home at 4pm.
She drove to Daingean Road car park after school on January 12th before going jogging along the Grand Canal about 2.51pm. Her body was discovered in a bramble covered ditch at Cappincur about 3.30pm. Puska, a 33-year-old father of five, with an address at Lynally Grove, Mucklagh, Co Offaly, about 6km outside Tullamore, came to Ireland 10 years ago. He left his native Slovakia aged 16 and went to Bratislava and then to the Czech Republic where he worked on building sites.The prosecution described the evidence against him as “overwhelming”, including admissions to murder he made in St James’s hospital in Dublin on January 14th, 2022, two days after Ms Murphy’s body was found.
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