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An Irish citizen is sentenced to 14 years for killing a US tourist in Hungary
The court also expelled the unnamed Irish defendant from Hungary for 10 years after he hid the victim’s body, officials said.
- On Thursday, The Budapest Metropolitan Court sentenced a Dublin man to 14 years in prison for the 2024 murder of Mackenzie Michalski, a 31-year-old American tourist from Portland, Oregon.
- Investigators detailed how the pair met at a Budapest nightclub in November 2024 before the man strangled Michalski during an 'intimate encounter' and disposed of her body near Szigliget.
- Dismissing the defendant's claim of 'consensual BDSM activity,' the court cited forensic evidence and footage from a 'spy pen' showing the victim's tied-up body, contradicting the defense's argument of an 'accidental death.'
- Michalski's mother addressed the court on Tuesday, describing the loss as causing 'immense trauma,' while the judge ordered the man to pay $7,995 in court costs and expelled him from Hungary for 10 years.
- The defendant's attorney has appealed the verdict, with the roughly 1 1/2 years already spent in detention counting toward his sentence before his eventual deportation from Hungary.
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