Man remanded in custody charged with murder of Ashling Murphy

A man has been remanded in custody after being charged with the murder of Irish teacher Ashling Murphy.

The 23-year-old schoolteacher was attacked and killed while out running on the Grand Canal near Tullamore last Wednesday.

Jozef Puska, 31, of Lynally Grove, Tullamore, Co Offaly, was heckled as he was taken from a Garda car to a special sitting of Tullamore District Court on Wednesday evening.

He was remanded in custody at Cloverhill Prison after the brief hearing.

A second man, arrested under Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act 1939, has been released without charge.

A file is to be prepared for the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions.

It comes just one day after the 23-year-old schoolteacher was laid to rest in her native Offaly.

At her funeral service in Mountbolus on Tuesday she was remembered as a kind, talented, loved and admired young woman.

The killing has sent shockwaves through the country, with vigils held all over Ireland and beyond in the days since.

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