The Ashling Murphy murder trial has heard from two Gardaí who attended the scene where her body was found.

33-year-old Jozef Puska, of Lynally Grove, Mucklagh, Co. Offaly, denies the murder of the schoolteacher along the Grand Canal in Tullamore on January 12th, 2022.

This morning, Garda Tom Dunne from Tullamore Garda Station said he received a call at around 3:35pm on the afternoon of January 12th from a man described as sounding very distressed.

He and his colleague Garda Shane Hunter made their way to the scene, where he said he found the body of Ashling Murphy in a ditch along the Grand Canal.

Garda Dunne said she was wearing a jacket, which he unzipped so he could apply CPR and chest compressions.

He said the two Gardaí alternated applying chest compressions for about 10 minutes until Ambulance personnel arrived.

The court heard Ms Murphy was found with a phone in her pocket, along with keys to a SEAT car and a necklace around her neck which said ‘Ashling’.

Garda Hunter, in his evidence, said he noticed thin lacerations on Ms Murphy’s neck, and that he recovered her phone from an open pocket.

Earlier, the jury of nine men and three women heard from a woman named Emma Doyle, who was out for a run along the Grand Canal on that date.

She described a woman coming around the corner, followed by a man on a bicycle in close proximity, who then proceeded to overtake her.

The trial continues this afternoon.