Jozef Puska has been found guilty of murdering schoolteacher Ashling Murphy in Tullamore, Co Offaly.

Ms Murphy, 23, was killed while exercising on a canal path in Tullamore, Co Offaly, on the afternoon of January 12 last year.

Her boyfriend Ryan Casey and brother Cathal Murphy spoke briefly to the media outside the Central Criminal Court in Dublin on 9 November.

Mr Casey said: “Ashling was a vibrant, intelligent and highly motivated young woman who embodied so many great traits and qualities of the Irish people and its communities.

“She was not only an integral part of our family but she was also a huge shining light in our community, a community in which year in year out, she gave back to as best she could."

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