Irish Citizen Sentenced to 14 Years for Murder in Hungary
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- An Irish citizen was sentenced to 14 years in prison in Hungary for strangling American tourist Mackenzie Michalski to death in Budapest in 2024.
- The suspect met the victim at a nightclub, and the killing occurred at his flat.
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An Irish citizen was sentenced to 14 years in prison for the murder of an American tourist in Budapest. The victim was reported missing after being last seen at a nightclub.
A court in Hungary on Thursday sentenced an Irish citizen to 14 years in prison for strangling an American tourist to death in the country’s capital in 2024.
The victim, 31-year-old Mackenzie Michalski from Portland, Oregon, was in Hungary on holiday and reported missing on November 5, 2024, after she was last seen at a nightclub in central Budapest.
Police launched a missing person investigation and reviewed security footage from local nightclubs where they observed Michalski, who went by “Kenzie”, with a man later identified as the suspect in several of the clubs the night of her disappearance.
The man, whom police identified by the initials L.T.M. and was 37 at the time, was detained on November 7 and questioned, and later confessed to the killing.
Investigators said that Michalski and the suspect met at a nightclub and danced before leaving for the man’s rented flat. The man beat and strangled Michalski while they were engaged in an “intimate encounter”, police said.
The Budapest Metropolitan Court on Thursday found the man guilty of murder and sentenced him to 14 years’ imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
The roughly 1.5 years he has already spent in detention will count towards his sentence, at the end of which the court ordered his deportation from Hungary.
Preguntas abiertas
- What was the motive for the killing?
- Were there any witnesses to the events at the flat?
