Jozef Puska, serving a life sentence for the murder of schoolteacher Ashling Murphy, abandons his bid to overturn his conviction. Reports say his legal team informs the Court of Appeal that he completes a notice of abandonment covering his conviction appeal. The abandonment ends the attempt to challenge the conviction through that process. Separately, earlier court reporting indicates lawyers had told the court that the “ambit of the appeal” could change, suggesting the scope of the challenge was still under discussion before the abandonment was lodged.
The sources consistently state that Murphy was 23 and that the killing occurred outside Tullamore, County Offaly. One report describes her being attacked and stabbed repeatedly in the neck while she was exercising along a canal towpath on 12 January 2022. Across the articles, the central development is that Puska no longer proceeds with the conviction appeal, with his notice of abandonment filed and communicated to the Court of Appeal.
