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Court Shown Clothes Ashling Murphy Was Wearing On Day She Died

Friday, 20 October 2023 12:56

Jozef Puska is on trial for her murder, which he denies.

The jury of the Ashling Murphy murder trial have been shown clothes and jewellery she was wearing on the day she died.

33-year-old Jozef Puska, of Lynally Grove, Mucklagh, Offaly, is on trial for her murder, which he denies.

Detective Garda Ronan Lawlor from the Garda Technical Bureau told the jury he examined the scene along the Grand Canal in Tullamore on January 12th 2022. 

He said Ashling was wearing - a GAA top and white t-shirt – both of which were described as bloodstained – along with tracksuit bottoms and a grey scarf.

The t-shirt, top and scarf were shown to the jury of 9 men and 3 women along with two blue nike runners, a watch, a pink hat, a ring, sunglasses and a necklace – which det Lawlor earlier described as having the word Ashling on it. 

Earlier, Paul McCabe, who was the clinical lead with the ambulance service tasked to the scene, gave evidence that they were called at 3:49pm on January 12th.

He said when they arrived, garda were still applying CPR to Ms Murphy, before she was brought out of the ditch and onto the footpath.

He said that they decided not to use the defibrillator by that time, as she had shown no signs of live and that she was dead.

The jury was also shown CCTV footage this morning, with more expected this afternoon.

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