Ashling Murphy murder trial - day 6: Witnesses allegedly see Jozef Puska & paramedics give evidence скачать в хорошем качестве

Ashling Murphy murder trial - day 6: Witnesses allegedly see Jozef Puska & paramedics give evidence

Murder-accused Jozef Puska denies staring at or following a woman - on the same day Ashling Murphy was killed, his trial has heard. Mr Puska (33) of Lynally Grove in Mucklagh, Co Offaly, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of 23 year old schoolteacher and musician Ashling Murphy - who was killed while out for a run at around 3:30pm at the canal in Tullamore, Co Offaly on January 12, 2022. On the sixth day of the trial, a woman told how a man - who was then identified by the Defence as being Mr Puska, was “following” her and staring at her in an “intimidating” manner as she went for a walk along the canal at around 2pm on January 12. However the Defence said the accused wasn’t following her, did look at her, but didn’t intend to stare at her. The trial also heard from paramedics who told the jury how they were called to a house in Crumlin, Dublin and discovered Ms Puska with stab injuries and scratches on him on January 13, 2022. It also heard from witnesses who said they saw a man dressed in dark clothing “acting weird” out by a recycling plant in Tullamore hours after Ms Murphy had been killed. In the afternoon Anne-Marie Kelly, a primary school teacher living in Tullamore, told the court that she contacted gardai after the murder of Ms Murphy to tell them that a man was “following” her when she was out for her walk at around 2pm on the afternoon she was killed. She said she had “made the connection” from the time she was on the canal and what she said she heard on the news. Ms Kelly said she started her walk on Church road near Tesco in Tullamore, and when she crossed over before a roundabout at Dunnes Stores she continued on past a McDonalds when she said she noticed “someone behind me on a bike at that point.” Ms Kelly told the court that she turned around and that the man on the bike was “staring” at her and was cycling close behind her. She said that the man - who she described as being of slim build, having a shaved head, black stubble and “distinctive” dark eyes stared at her for “what felt like a few minutes, but it was a few seconds I’m sure.” “It was literally like slow motion and staring directly. It sort of felt like an intimidating stare,” she told the court. Ms Kelly said she jogged up a hill by the car park and got as far as the canal when she said she noticed the man again standing to the left of her. She said she made a “quick decision” to go up the grassy side of the canal as she was “nervous of the man” and thought it would be too mucky for him to cycle his bicycle down that side. She said she was walking fast when she said she noticed the man was behind her, “walking quite fast, with the bike.” When she got up as far as a white van she said she noticed an older man who said hello to her, and following this she decided to stop to either tie her lace or get the dog to catch up. After this she said she noticed the man in front of her, walking with his bike “very slowly” - and she eventually made the decision to jog on ahead of him, trying not to make eye contact or to “engage in any way. Ms Kelly said she remembered next getting to Bolads Lock where she said she sent a picture of it to her girlfriend - and she said the man was catching up on her, “coming again quite fast up the hill.” “I just wanted to get away from the man at that point,” she said, and told the court that she ran on. Following this the witness identified herself in CCTV footage showing her walking past the McDonalds and a man on a bike coming behind her shortly afterwards. In cross-examination, Michael Bowman SC, acting for the accused man, said that his client remembers passing Ms Kelly at the McDonalds that afternoon. He said Mr Puska recollects passing the witness and looking at her but he “doesn’t believe he stared” at her and that he didn’t “intend” to. He put it to the witness if she remembered at any point thinking that Mr Puska might be lost - to which she said she at one point “rationalised it” and thought “maybe he was foreign and lost.” Mr Bowman then put it to the witness that his client Mr Puska “certainly wasn’t following” her that day, to which the witness responded by saying: “It appeared like he was following me.” #ashlingmurphy #ireland #irishnews #podcast #truecrime #crime __________________________________________________ SUBSCRIBE to other Irish Mirror social channels: TWITTER |   / irishmirror   INSTAGRAM |   / irishmirror   FACEBOOK |   / irishmirror   WEBSITE | https://www.irishmirror.ie/ YOUTUBE | shorturl.at/biCX5