The trial of Jozef Puska - week three of the evidence

Just after 3.30pm on Thursday afternoon, Senior Counsel Michael Bowman called his first witness for the defence."Jozef Puska, please," he said and the accused man left his seat at the side of the courtroom to walk the short distance to the witness box.

Speaking through an interpreter, Mr Puska indicated that he knew. Mr Bowman asked him to explain to the jury his recollection of events on the day of the murder and told him:"This is your story to tell – not mine."He told the jury he had left his house in Mucklagh – around 8km from Tullamore - on his bicycle at around 11.30am on the morning of 12 January 12 last year and travelled towards Tullamore town.

As he travelled between the bridge and the N52 flyover, he told the court"that was the time I was attacked by a male". He ended up in a ditch, he said, and felt really unwell, losing consciousness and staying there for some time.He went away from the lights, he told Mr Bowman.He called to his friend, Rostislav, told him he had been attacked and asked him to give him a lift home to Mucklagh.They were trying to ask him what had happened to him. But he said he didn’t want to tell them.The next morning, he began vomiting blood.

Ms Lawlor put it to him that there was no other man and that he was the person who had stabbed Ms Murphy 11 times and sliced her neck with the 12th wound, while she desperately tried to save herself."You’ve lied consistently in this investigation," Ms Lawlor said,"and you’re lying today".Earlier in the week, the court heard details of Mr Puska’s interviews with gardaí after his arrest on 18 January last year.

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