‘Helped man who murdered my partner in cold blood’ – Ashling Murphy’s boyfriend lashes out after Puska family jail terms. On Release they still get Welfare, and Medical Cards, of Irish Taxpayers.

All three initially failed to disclose admissions by depraved Puska

THE partner of Ashling Murphy has told how he was “extremely angry” over the sentences handed down to her killer’s family members.

Ryan Casey said he was taken back at the Irish justice system when it came to sentencing evil Jozef Puska’s relatives and those who engage in the crimes the five were caged over this week.

In a statement issued this afternoon, he added that they “helped the man who murdered my partner in cold blood” to the best of their ability.

Casey also recalled how each “smirked, smiled and shook their heads” during Puska’s trial back in 2023, when the thug was convicted and sentenced to life over the murder of musician and teacher Ashling on January 12, 2022 in Tullamore, Offaly.

The relatives of depraved Puska – his wife, two brothers and their partners – are beginning terms of 20 to 30 months behind bars after their sentencing at Dublin’s Central Criminal Court on Wednesday.

Puska’s wife Lucia Istokova was jailed for one year and eight months behind bars after withholding information.

She didn’t tell the gardai in an interview of her husband’s chilling admission on the night of the murder, of which she later said: “He told me ‘I didn’t mean to kill that girl.’

“He needed to get out of here, he said something like ‘she is dead’.”

His two brothers, Marek and Lubomir Puska were sentenced to two years and six months for the same offence.

All three initially failed to disclose admissions by depraved Puska on the night of the murder, that he had visible injuries and that he travelled to Dublin that evening.

Casey believes that the sentencing of the Puskas was an opportunity to set a precedent, but that the justice system failed yet another victim and another victim’s family.

He has called for a complete overhaul of the system, with harsher penalties for such crimes.

As Ashling’s fourth anniversary approaches, Casey said: “Where these four years have gone I will never know.

“Yet in roughly half that time again, all of these people will be back out on our streets again, in the midst of our society and most likely right back onto all of our welfare systems.

“This to me and to all of us is an absolute joke and really sums up this country right now.”

He added: “I want to know why these people who came here over 10 years ago, who never bothered to work, who never bothered to contribute to society, who never bothered to integrate,, who tried their best as a family to cover up the murder of my partner, and will all be back out and about within our society within 2.5 years, most likely two years with ‘good behaviour’.”