Overview
- Marek and Lubomir Puska were each sentenced to 30 months for withholding information from gardaí.
- Viera Gaziova received 24 months and Jozefina Grundzova 21 months for assisting an offender by burning Jozef Puska’s clothes.
- Lucia Istokova was jailed for 20 months after admitting in May to withholding information before the trial began.
- Ms Justice Caroline Biggs said the defendants deliberately chose silence and lies, noting they acted knowing Puska had confessed.
- Victim impact statements from Ashling Murphy’s family described profound anger, a sense of being gaslit, and frustration at the public cost, while Puska remains serving a life sentence with parole eligibility after 12 years.