Jozef Puska told his brother he 'cut' a woman and it was 'probably bad'

Four people are facing charges relating to the murder of Ashling Murphy in 2022

Jozef Puska was convicted of murdering Ashlin Murphy in November 2023. File picture

On the night he murdered Ashling Murphy, Jozef Puska told his brother that he had unintentionally "cut" a woman and it was "probably bad", a trial has heard.

The jury heard Marek Puska also told gardaí he "logically inferred" that Jozef had "murdered that girl", but said Jozef had told him he did not intend to cut her. Gardaí put it to Marek that he asked his sister-in-law, Viera Gaziova, to burn Jozef's clothes because he believed Jozef might have been involved in Ashling Murphy's murder.