A man described as ‘evil in the room’ has been found guilty of murdering a schoolteacher’ by stabbing her in the neck 11 times, before slicing it in a brutal 12th wound.
Jozef Puska killed schoolteacher Ashling Murphy in Tullasmore, Co Offaly in Ireland on the afternoon of January 12 last year.
Ms Murphy, 23, was exercising on a canal path when she was attacked and killed by Puska, 33, of Lynally Grove in Mucklagh, Tullamore.
He had pleaded not guilty to her murder, but a jury, made up of nine men and three women, reached their unanimous guilty verdict at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin after deliberating for more than two hours today (November 9).
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