PUSKA LIFE SENTENCES

Ashling killer learning to read and write with daily lessons in prison

- BY JOHN KIERANS

EVIL killer Josef Puska is going to school every day behind bars, we can reveal.

The brute who stabbed primary school teacher Ashling Murphy to death in a frenzied attack while she was out jogging, is learning how to read, write and speak English.

The 35-year-old Slovakian is serving a life sentence for a crime in the Midlands Prison that shocked the nation.

Prison sources say he has yet to admit his guilt or give any explanation why he attacked Ashling.

Yet he is now getting an education while in jail courtesy of the Irish taxpayer - and it is costing thousands of euros every year.

A prison source said: "It is ironic that Puska's victim, Ashling, a teacher, can't go to school because he took her life, but yet he can.

SCHOOL

"Every day now he goes to school in the Midlands Prison and is learning to speak English, and to read and write in English, among other things.