The most recent episode of the Mail’s Ashling Murphy podcast is interesting (the one titled The Killer). They talk about some of the legal arguments that could not be made public until after the verdict.
The defence tried to get the cctv footage of Josef Puska on his bike stalking other women dismissed from evidence under breach of privacy (because he could not have reasonably known his actions were being caught on camera), argued having a police officer outside his hospital room then also being escorted out of hospital in handcuffs were in breach of his human rights. The judge was having none of it and was quite scathing of the defence thank goodness. I know defence have a job to do but this seems to go beyond what would be deemed reasonable and credible.
There was also a guest on talking about possible motives as it was such a random, violent attack with no previous known history. I think the theory is there was still a sexual motive even though there was no sexual assault.
She also made the point how in prison Puska will get all the support he wants for his mental and physical health, education etc, all on taxpayer dime, yet the family of victims get no support whatsoever. It’s disgusting.
Also, the night before Puska was due to start giving evidence, he tried to harm himself in his cell. So when he eventually gave evidence he had no hair tie or shoe laces as these were taken from him due to risk of him harming himself again.
One of the presenters also spoke to some of his family after the trial and they still don’t believe he did this.
Anyway it was a very interesting episode and not very long either, about half an hour.
www.dailymail.co.uk
- but this won’t detract from your viewing as to be honest that element is just the opener to the episode, the key focus is on the drug activity of the OCG as others have chatted about on here already.
metro.co.uk
