'Closed ranks': Members of Jozef Puska's family jailed for withholding information on murderer

Ashling Murphy's father said the defendants could have spared the family the 'horror' of a trial if they had 'simply done the right thing and for once thought of others instead of themselves'

Lucia Istokova, wife of Joesph Puska, will serve a 20-month sentence. File photo: Collins Courts

Five members of Jozef Puska's family, who withheld or destroyed evidence of the murder of Ashling Murphy, have been jailed by a judge at the Central Criminal Court.

Puska's brothers Marek (aged 36) and Lubomir (aged 37) have been sentenced to 30 months each in prison. Lubomir's wife Viera Gaziova (aged 40) was sentenced to 24 months and Marek's wife Jozefina to 21 months.