Lawyers had objected to use of confession to gardaí two days after stabbing, saying Puska was under influence of painkiller
Lawyers had objected to use of confession to gardaí two days after stabbing, saying Puska was under influence of painkillerJozef Puska has been granted legal aid to appeal his conviction for murdering schoolteacher Ashling Murphy.
Prior to a jury being sworn to hear Puska’s trial last year his lawyers made a number of objections to the evidence the prosecution intended to call. The defence argued that the jury should not hear Puska’s confession to gardaí two days after the stabbing.Family affairs: How Ireland’s newly rich are putting money to work in secretive firms
A jury convicted him by a unanimous verdict following a trial last year. The jury found that Puska stabbed Ms Murphy eleven times in the neck and slashed her once with the edge of a blade before leaving her to die in the thick thorns and brambles by the side of the canal towpath between Tullamore town and Digby Bridge. A monument now stands where she died.
When gardaí spoke to Puska the day after the murder his face and hands were covered in scratches that were consistent with him crawling through the thorns and briars by the side of the towpath where he murdered Ms Murphy. In his testimony to the trial, Puska claimed that he was cycling along the towpath when he was attacked and stabbed by a masked man.
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