Overview
- Marek Puska and Lubomir Puska were each sentenced to 30 months at the Central Criminal Court 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 after the murder.
- Lucia Istokova, Puska’s partner and mother of his children, was jailed for 20 months after pleading guilty in May to withholding information.
- Ms Justice Caroline Biggs emphasized proportionality in sentencing, noting the offending was not at the highest category but that each acted knowing of the killing.
- Amy Murphy condemned the defendants’ “silent complicity,” and a statement from Ray Murphy read by Garda Alan Burke said the family was denied earlier justice by the concealment.