Updated 20 January: Jozef Puska, 31, appeared at a special court in the Republic of Ireland on Wednesday night charged with the murder of Ashling Murphy.

The 23-year-old teacher was attacked while exercising beside a canal in Tullamore, County Offaly, just before 4pm on Wednesday 4 January.

In the court, a detective sergeant gave evidence of the arrest, charge and caution.

The court heard that when the charge was put to the defendant, he replied “no”.

Puska’s defence solicitor applied for free legal aid and for the services of an interpreter, saying that he was a Slovakian national living on €200 (£166) a week.

Judge Catherine Staines remanded Puska in custody to appear again at Clover Hill District Court on 26 January.

A second man in his 30s who was arrested earlier on Wednesday has been released without charge.

On 18 January, hundreds of mourners gathered at St Brigid’s Church in Mount Bolus this morning to attend Murphy’s funeral.

Ashling Murphy: a man has been charged with the murder of the 23-year-old primary school teacher