Another trial hearing took place in Budapest yesterday in the case of an Irish man accused of killing a female American tourist in the Hungarian capital in November 2024.<\/p>\n
Mackenzie Michalski, a 31-year-old nurse from the US, was visiting Budapest and went missing on 4 November 2024.<\/p>\n
Police arrested a 38-year-old Irish male suspect three days later.<\/p>\n
The Irish citizen has been held in police custody for the past 17 months, initially while police completed a 12-month investigation into the cause of Ms Michalski’s death.<\/p>\n
Last November, Budapest’s Metropolitan Prosecutor’s Office filed a charge of basic homicide against the Irish man, which denotes that no premeditation was involved.<\/p>\n
The Irish man maintains that the cause of Ms Michalski’s death was not intentional.<\/p>\n
At yesterday’s hearing, an expert psychiatrist provided an assessment for the court of the accused\u2019s state of mind, and was of the view that the accused could re-offend, a spokesperson for Budapest’s Metropolitan Prosecutor’s Office told RT\u00c9 News.<\/p>\n
The defence lawyer requested that a new expert psychiatrist be appointed for further hearings, arguing that the current expert psychiatrist did not provide an objective assessment.<\/p>\n
The defence lawyer also requested that the accused be granted bail, set at 25 million forints (\u20ac69,000).<\/p>\n
The trial judge is considering both the defence\u2019s request for a new expert psychiatrist and the request for bail. Previous requests for bail for the accused have been denied by the court.<\/p>\n
The Budapest Chief Prosecutor’s Office is seeking a prison sentence in the case without the possibility of parole.<\/p>\n
In Hungary, the crime of basic homicide is punishable with a sentence of five to 15 years in prison.<\/p>\n
The next hearing is scheduled for 19 June in Budapest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another trial hearing took place in Budapest yesterday in the case of an Irish man accused of killing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-409890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}