Marek Puska (34) was jailed for 30 months, while his partner Jozefina Grundzova (31) was sentenced to 27 months with six suspended. Photograph: Collins Courts
Five people – the partner of Jozef Puska, two of his brothers and their wives – have been sentenced from between 20 months to 2½ years over their actions in the immediate aftermath of his murder of schoolteacher Ashling Murphy.
Both brothers were jailed for 2½ years while Puska’s partner was jailed for 26 months and his brothers’ wives were jailed for 30 months and 27 months.
Six months of the sentences of each of the three women were suspended after Ms Justice Caroline Biggs said she accepted their Roma culture meant the women “did what they were told”.
The outcome means the 14 children of the five will not have parents to care for them. Tusla, the State’s child and family agency, is satisfied that appropriate arrangements are in place for the care of the children, Ms Justice Caroline Biggs noted.
Jozef Puska is serving a life sentence for the murder of Ms Murphy (23) while she was out walking on the Grand Canal near her home in Tull
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