Four men fly out to face judge investigating tragic balcony plunge of Scots newly-wed holidaymaker Kirsty
FOUR British men being investigated over Scots holidaymaker Kirsty Maxwell’s death will appear in a Spanish court today.
Ricky Gammon, 31, Anthony Holehouse, 34, Daniel Bailey, 32, and Callum Northridge, 27, arrived in Benidorm yesterday.
They will be questioned by a magistrate about the events leading up to the tragedy.
Kirsty, 27, from Livingston, plunged from the 10th-floor holiday apartment the men were staying in after entering it by mistake.
She had a room on a different floor in the Apartamentos Payma in the Little England area of Benidorm, where she was on a hen weekend with 21 friends.
All four men are expected to protest their innocence in front of investigating judge Ana Isabel Garcia-Galbis.
The hearing will take place in private.
Their friend Joseph Graham, who was also in the apartment and was questioned immediately after the tragedy on April 29, is not due to make the trip to Spain.
The Brits were summonsed to give evidence following an application by Luis Miguel Zumaquero, who is representing Kirsty’s grieving husband Adam and parents, to have all five men placed under formal investigation.
Lawyers for Kirsty’s family have suggested she was trying to flee from the men’s room. Mr Zumaquero said: “I don’t think Kirsty was pushed but I do believe she was fleeing from something or somebody.”
In a statement last night, Adam, who married Kirsty in September last year, said: “There’s been a lot of British media reporting and speculation about the Spanish court processes regarding Kirsty’s death.
“However, at this time we as a family dealing with the stress of Kirsty’s death are not in a position to comment on what the potential outcomes will be.”
Earlier this month, the criminal court probing the death heard Kirsty was more than five times the Spanish legal drink-driving limit when she fell from the balcony.