In January 2022, Ashling Murphy was murdered in Tullamore by Jozef Puska.
Jozef Puska’s two brothers have pleaded not guilty to withholding information in relation to the Garda investigation into the murder of Ashling Murphy.
Their wives are also on trial, with both women accused of assisting Jozef Puska by burning items of clothing.
In January 2022, Ashling Murphy, a 23-year-old schoolteacher, was murdered in Tullamore by Jozef Puska.
His two brothers, Marek and Lobomir, are now on trial accused of withholding information from gardai; namely that Jozef Puska had returned home with visible injuries on the night of the murder, and that he travelled to Dublin that night.
Marek is also accused of not telling the investigation team that he was aware of an arrangement to burn the clothes worn by Jozef at the time of the murder; and of not telling them that he’d admitted to killing, or seriously injuring, a woman with a knife.
Lobomir is also accused of not telling gardai that Jozef Puska admitted cutting a woman with a knife.
Marek and Lobomir’s wives, Jozefina Grundzova and Viera Gazoiva, are also on trial, with both accused of assisting Jozef Puska by burning items of clothing.
Their trial is due to begin tomorrow.
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