The jury in the Ashling Murphy murder trial has resumed its deliberations.

Thirty-three-year-old Jozef Puska, of Lynally Grove, Mucklagh, County Offaly, denies murdering Ms Murphy along the Grand Canal in Tullamore in January 2022.

This morning, the jury of nine men and three women were given brief instructions this morning by trial judge Mr Justice Tony Hunt on a number of issues.

He said they must be satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt that Jozef Puska was ‘the author’ of the stab wounds to Ashling Murphy’s neck – and that his intention was to kill or cause serious injury.

Mr Justice Hunt clarified to jurors that serious injury means creating a substantial risk that the victim may day.

The jury was then retired at 10:51 this morning to resume its deliberations.

Main image: Floral tributes and candles were left outside the London Irish Centre in Camden Town for murdered schoolteacher Ashling Murphy, 15-01-2022. Image: Eleventh Hour Photography/Alamy