School teacher was stabbed 11 times in the neck, jury told
The prosecution case is that Jozef Puska made that admission in St James’s Hospital in Dublin two days after Ashling Murphy was attacked on the Grand Canal near Tullamore in Co Offaly on January 12th 2022, the court heard.
The jury will also hear that Mr Puska had said he was sorry, he did not do it intentionally, counsel said. There was also CCTV evidence, DNA and witness evidence to support the prosecution case against Mr Puska, including cuts and scratches wholly consistent with his having left the scene where Ms Murphy was killed, she said.
Ms Murphy’s parents, Raymond and Kathleen, her sister Amy and brother Cathal, were all in court when the trial got underway this morning before Mr Justice Tony Hunt and a jury of nine men and three women.
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