Jozef Puska (35) murdered Ms Murphy (23) on January 12, 2022, by repeatedly stabbing her in the neck after attacking her while she exercised along the canal towpath outside Tullamore, Co Offaly

Marek Puska and Lubomir Puska are accused of withholding information that was crucial to the investigation into Ashling Murphy's murder in January 2022.

Lawyers for Puska's sisters-in-law, Jozefina Grundzova (32) and Viera Gaziova (40), delivered their closing speeches to a jury this afternoon. The two women are on trial with their husbands, Marek Puska (36) and Lubomir Puska Jnr (38).

Jozefina Grundzova (32), who is married to Jozef's brother Marek Puska (36), is charged with impeding the apprehension or prosecution of Jozef Puska by assisting in burning his clothes.

The jury also heard that Lubomir Puska Jnr (37) denied that he had asked anyone to dispose of the clothes worn by his brother on the day Jozef Puska murdered Ms Murphy.

Gardaí became aware that the then suspect's clothes may have been burned in the fireplace at the Puska home in Mucklagh, Tullamore, Co Offaly.

Sean Gillane SC, for the Director of Public Prosecutions, opened the trial on Tuesday of Jozef Puska's brothers, who are charged with withholding information, and their wives, who are charged with burning Puska's clothes to impede his arrest or prosecution.