Spanish public prosecutors are seeking a 21-year prison sentence for Keith Byrne for strangling mum-of-one Kirsty Ward with a hair straightener power cord after a row at their Costa Dorada holiday hotel
An Irishman has been charged with the murder of his south Dublin girlfriend and warned he could be caged for more than two decades if convicted.
READ MORE: Romanian charged in connection with fatal hit-and-run that killed teen 'genuinely thought he hit a deer'A five-page prosecution indictment submitted to the Spanish courts accuses Byrne of strangling Kirsty to death with a hair straightener power cord hours after she dumped him following a row in their hotel room. They claim he acted with the intention of killing the 36-year-old because he couldn’t accept the end of their eight-month relationship.
“On July 2 2023, after a new row that afternoon in their hotel room, she decided to end their relationship, following which the accused man left. About 9pm the same day, he returned to the hotel and had another row with the victim in their hotel room. “She was also under the effects of a prior consumption of alcohol, cocaine, Benzoylecgonine and Lidocaine, which prevented her from defending herself in equal conditions, leaving her unable to do anything to avoid her death.”
It emerged following Byrne’s Spanish arrest that he was wanted in England by Royal Military Police for going AWOL after he left for Ireland in 2017. Reports in Ireland in March said Spanish prosecutors intended to interview at least two of his former partners about assisting the case by giving background information about him.
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