{"id":541251,"date":"2026-07-09T16:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/541251\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T16:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:13:09","slug":"dublin-man-jailed-for-murder-of-american-nurse-in-hungary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/541251\/","title":{"rendered":"Dublin man jailed for murder of American nurse in Hungary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Dublin man has been sentenced to 14 years in prison in Hungary for the murder of an American woman.<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old&#8217;s defence team claimed McKenzie Michalski died as a result of an accident during a one-night stand.<\/p>\n<p>However, the judge agreed with the prosecution&#8217;s case, saying it was not believable the victim would have asked for the encounter to be violent.<\/p>\n<p>The Irish Times reports the Irishman&#8217;s legal team has already launched an appeal.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"not-prose no-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/crime-law\/courts\/2026\/07\/09\/dublin-man-who-murdered-american-nurse-is-jailed-for-14-years-in-hungary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><\/p>\n<p>                                    Court report<\/p>\n<p>Dublin man who murdered American nurse is jailed for 14 years in Hungary<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Dublin man has been sentenced to 14 years in prison in Hungary for the murder of an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-541251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541251","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=541251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}