A woman has told a Dublin court that she felt a man on a bike was following her in a Co Offaly town on the day of Ashling Murphy’s death.
Jurors also heard two witnesses give evidence that they saw a man dressed in dark clothing walking along a road in Tullamore that evening. She told the court the man made her feel “uncomfortable”, and she stepped aside twice to let him pass, and the second time he did. Local woman Beata Borowska confirmed that she is the woman wearing a “dark red jacket” on Church Road in CCTV footage from the afternoon of January 12.Niamh Arthur, who grew up in Tullamore, told the court said she was leaving her place of work at about 8.30pm on the day Ms Murphy was killed.
Asked whether she had seen people walking along that route, Ms Arthur said that sometimes you would see builders walking along, but never in the dark and never in dark clothing at night.