Accused told gardai ‘I did it’ days after Ashling Murphy death, court told

A man accused of the murder of an Irish schoolteacher last year told gardai “I did it… I am the murderer” while receiving treatment in hospital, a jury has heard.

Outlining the case to the jury at Dublin’s Criminal Courts of Justice on Tuesday, senior counsel for the prosecution Anne-Marie Lawlor said that “quite a number” of maps, some of the 25,000 hours of CCTV footage collected by gardai, and witness evidence would feature in the case. Ms Lawlor told the jury that she believes CCTV footage shows Puska cycling “in close proximity” to two women.She said there were briars and thorns at the scene by the canal that will emerge as “significant” later on, because Puska would later be found with cuts on his hands “consistent leaving the scene”.

She told the court that when gardai returned and questioned him again, Puska told them: “I did it, I murdered, I am the murderer.”

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