Murder-accused Jozef Puska denies staring at or following a woman - on the same day Ashling Murphy was killed, his trial has heard.
However the Defence said the accused wasn’t following her, did look at her, but didn’t intend to stare at her. 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.”
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. 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.
Earlier in the afternoon Conor Mackey of Dublin Fire Brigade told the court that he was called to an apartment on the Armagh Road in Crumlin at around 11am - and that a man there had “stab injuries.” Mr Cusker said he asked if there was someone in the house who could speak English, and he then spoke with a woman as they placed Mr Puska on the bed and checked him “head to toe.”
When she got inside she said she could see Mr Puska lying on the bed - and he had three “puncture” wounds across his lower abdomen that “weren’t actively bleeding.” The witness told the court that she could recall that the accused did not make eye contact with her. A witness named Niamh Arthur was next to be called - telling the court that she and her boyfriend were driving home to Kilbeggan, passing the AES recycling plant in Tullamore after 8:30pm, when she says she saw a man on the road who initially gave her a “fright.”
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