MONSTER Jozef Puska has been found guilty of the murder of young teacher Ashling Murphy who was stabbed to death in a frenzied attack while out for a run. The 33-year-old, from Lynally Grove, Muckl…
MONSTER Jozef Puska has been found guilty of the murder of young teacher Ashling Murphy who was stabbed to death in a frenzied attack while out for a run.
They had deliberated for just for two hours before reaching their unanimous verdict at the Central Criminal Court this afternoon.Evil Puska now faces a mandatory life sentence for murder. He had been captured on CCTV cycling the same bicycle around Tullamore earlier that afternoon and the prosecution alleged that the footage showed him following two women before heading towards the canal where he isolated Ashling Murphy, who was walking alone.
When gardai 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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