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Due before Tullamore District Court
TWO brothers of Jozef Puska, the man who murdered Ashling Murphy, are scheduled to appear at Tullamore District Court on December 20 next.
Lubomir Puska (35) and Marek Puska (34) are both accused of failing to disclose information to gardai which might have helped secure the apprehension, prosecution or conviction of Jozef Puska for the murder of Ashling Murphy at Grand Canal Way, Cappincur, Tullamore on January 12 last year.
The offences are alleged to have been committed by the two men on a date unknown between January 12 and January 27, 2022 at Tullamore Garda Station.
A woman, Lucia Istokova (34) has been accused of the same offence and has also been remanded to appear at Tullamore District Court on December 20.
Two other women, Jozefina Grundzova (33) and Viera Gazoiva (38) have also been remanded to appear at the same court on that date.
They are both charged with impeding the apprehension or prosecution of a person, knowing or believing that person to be guilty of murder or some other arrestable offence, between January 12 and January 14, 2022.
When the five accused people appeared before Tullamore District Court earlier this year an order was made prohibiting the publication of their addresses.
Detective Garda Colin O'Leary told the court that when Lubomir Puska was arrested and charged he replied after caution: “I understand what you said and I thank you.”
Marek Puska was arrested by Detective Sergeant Caroline Lyng and she said his reply after caution was: “It is out of my hands to say anything about that.”
The other gardai who gave evidence of arrest, charge and caution were Detective Garda Shane Jennings, Detective Garda Alan Burke and Detective Garda David Harney.
The court heard the DPP had directed all five be tried by indictment and she remanded them on bail to appear in court again for service of books of evidence.
A Slovakian language interpreter was in court to assist the accused.
Jozef Puska (33), a native of Slovakia with an address at Lynally Grove, Mucklagh, Tullamore, is serving a life sentence for murdering Ashling Murphy after being found guilty at the end of an 18-day trial at the Central Criminal Court.
Twenty-three-year-old Ms Murphy, from Blueball, Tullamore, was a teacher at Durrow National School.
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