Family of hen plunge Kirsty win battle over missing clothes
THE family of Spain plunge victim Kirsty Maxwell has won the fight for answers about the clothes she was wearing when she died.
A Spanish lawyer acting for the Scot’s husband Adam and her parents Brian and Denise, has also managed to reverse an earlier decision denying them the right to get police to reveal what work they did to identify potential witnesses.
Last night it emerged that the family’s legal team may
‘They should be remanded’
still win permission for a reconstruction of the events leading up to Mrs Maxwell’s death from the judge probing five British male holidaymakers who were in the Benidorm flat she fell from in April last year.
It is thought the 27-year-old, from Livingston, West Lothian, entered their flat by mistake after returning to the Apartamentos Payma following a night out with friends while on a hen party trip.
The men, who have been allowed home to England, may now be asked to return to Spain to take part in the reconstruction.
All five are being investigated on suspicion of homicide, although none have been formally charged with any crime. They all deny any involvement in the death.
In November, David Swindle, a former detective who is working for the family, raised the lack of information on the whereabouts of the T-shirt and skirt Mrs Maxwell was wearing when she died, and requested a report into scientific tests on the items.
Judge Ana Isabel Garcia Galbis’s decision to accept an appeal by lawyer Luis Miguel Zumaquero means the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Alicante, where the autopsy took place, will be now be asked to provide this information. A source close to Mrs Maxwell’s family said: ‘The family and her lawyers are concerned that the five men under investigation will not come back to Spain if they are ordered to stand trial and feel they should be remanded in prison.
‘The weight of the investigation has fallen on her family and those assisting them because of the passive attitude of police and state prosecutors.’