Today, on the fourth day of the trial, Detective Garda Tom Dunne told the jury how he performed CPR on Ms Murphy and checked for a pulse - but said he couldn’t find one
Gardai have told the trial of Jozef Puska how they performed CPR on Ashling Murphy and could see “an awful lot of blood” around her body.
The man “kept saying there was a body in the ditch” at Bolands Lock at Digby Bridge, the Detective Garda said. There, they met two cyclists- Enda Molloy and Janusz Wilko, who pointed out the body inside a ditch. Detective Garda Dunne told the court that he could “see straight away there was a body in the ditch.”
Describing what he could see at the time the Detective Garda told the court: "Her face, there was a lot of blood. Her hair was matted, kind of caught in the briars. You couldn't see her face. There was an awful lot of blood. It was impossible to tell where it was coming from at the time.” Asked by defence counsel if he could feel a pulse, the Detective Garda said that he said in his statement that he had “looked for one and couldn’t find one. If there was one it was very faint, very weak," he said.
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