Jozef Puska has pleaded not guilty to murdering Ashling Murphy.
The man accused of murdering Ashling Murphy has “spun” a story of “foul and contemptible” lies for the sake of the jury, the Dublin Central Criminal Court has heard.
Defence barrister Michael Bowman SC told the jury that lies were not necessarily evidence of guilt, and said the details of the case were “not as straightforward as the prosecution would have you believe”. The court had also heard evidence from gardai who said Puska admitted killing Ms Murphy while receiving treatment at St James’s Hospital in Dublin on January 14.Addressing the jury of nine men and three women, Ms Lawlor said that usually when deciding what has happened in a case, “you’re holding light into a crevice”, but this case heard that there was a confession by Puska.
Comparing it to extracting a needle from a haystack, Ms Lawlor said the DNA examined by forensic experts is matched to that of Jozef Puska.She told the jury that Puska told “contemptible lies that he was trying to save the life of Ashling Murphy”.She said that Puska “spun” a story of “lies and mistruths, some of which I say are foul and contemptible in their nature”.
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