A large crowd surrounds the court as Jozef Puska is charged with the murder of Ashling Murphy. The community expresses shock and anger towards Puska's refusal to accept responsibility for the crime.
There were unprecedented scenes in Tullamore , Co Offaly, on the night Jozef Puska was charged with the murder of Ashling Murphy. A large crowd surrounded the court and the garda vans and shouted abuse at him as gardaí hurried him into the back of a van. They were so keen to get him safely away from the district court after he had been remanded in custody that the garda van with him in it, drove off with the back doors swinging open.
The hostile scenes that night were a raucous reflection of the community's shock and anger that remains to this day. The abhorrence all over the country for what Puska has done to an extremely talented young woman who had her whole life ahead of her has been exacerbated by his subsequent refusal to accept and take responsibility for her murder, in spite of the overwhelming evidence against him. That evidence included statements from witnesses who came across him at the scene and whom he threatened, as he was committing or had just committed the murde
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