Marta Herda sentenced to life for murder in Arklow

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Marta Herda was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment by the Central Criminal Court on 28 July 2016.

She drove Csaba Orsos into the water at South Quay, Arklow, where he drowned on 26 March 2013.

Herda had pleaded not guilty, but the jury found her guilty by a majority of 11 to one after deliberating for eight hours and 11 minutes.

The court heard that Herda escaped through the driver's window, while Orsos's body was found on a nearby beach later that day.