The jury in the trial of the man accused of murdering school teacher Ashling Murphy has begun its deliberations at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin.
Judge Hunt told the jury if they are to convict Puska of murder they must be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that he inflicted the neck wounds on the Ms Murphy and that he intended to kill or cause serious injury at the time. The judge urged jurors to decide on the facts of the case first, and then apply the law to those facts.
He said there was a suggestion gardai had “sidestepped” doctors and nurses to access Puska, but he told jurors to consider the context in which the Garda members were operating, namely the fear there was a “maniac on the loose” following Ms Murphy’s murder. He said both the prosecution and defence version of events involved there being physical contact between Puska and Ms Murphy. He said the question jurors need to consider was whether that contact was through a fatal assault or by the accused coming to Ms Murphy’s aid after she was attacked by someone else.
The judge said jurors had to decide whether there was a “benign” reason for his failure to answer questions or offer further material or whether it inferred guilt.The judge said the accused has conceded he lied to gardai on “some things”, including an initial claim that he had sustained stomach wounds after being randomly attacked by two men in the Blanchardstown area of Dublin.
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