The first garda at the scene where school teacher Ashling Murphy's body was discovered, said he and his colleague attempted CPR on her body for ten to 15 minutes, but there were no signs of life.
Garda Tom Dunne was giving evidence at the trial of 33-year-old Jozef Puska who denies murdering Ms Murphy on the banks of the Grand Canal at Tullamore, Co Offaly, on the afternoon of 12 January 2022.
Garda Dunne said he could see straight away that there was a body in the ditch - around"5 to 6 feet" in from the path and the same distance down. He agreed with prosecuting counsel Anne-Marie Lawlor that there was quite a degree of undergrowth and brambles in the ditch. When paramedics arrived, they lifted her body out of the ditch and continued working on her on the walkway. They used a defibrillator but stopped working on her when there were no signs of life after some time.
She told the court she had gone for a walk along the canal around 3pm on that afternoon and had encountered a man on a bicycle. She said she saw a woman walking and a man on a bicycle very close to her. She said at first she thought they were together as they were so close, but then the cyclist passed the woman.
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