A SCOTTISH woman who plunged to her death from a 10th-floor balcony in a Benidorm aparthotel did so in 'panic' after entering the wrong room, the latest news on her case reveals.
Kirsty Maxwell, 27, from Livingstone was on a hen weekend with her friends between April 27 and 30 at the Payma Apartments in the Rincón de Loix area – known as 'the British neighbourhood' - of the Costa Blanca seaside capital, and her fatal fall happened the night before she was due to return home.
Her husband Adam Maxwell, whom she had very recently married after they had been together since she was 18, and Kirsty's dad Brian Curry launched an appeal on social media for 'even small bits of information you may not think relevant' which may lead them to finding out what happened to their beloved wife and daughter and to bring whoever was at fault to justice – as reported by thinkSPAINlast month (link to story here).
The room from which Kirsty fell was occupied by five British men – Joseph Graham, 32; Anthony Holehouse, 34; Daniel Bailey, 32; Ricky Gammon, 31 and Callum Northridge, 27 – none of whom Kirsty knew before her final weekend and all of whom have since been summoned back to Spain to testify.
After their hearing, they were released pending trial, but Adam and Brian are pushing for them to be remanded in custody as they fear the men represent a flight risk.
According to latest headlines in the Spanish media, Kirsty 'entered their room by mistake' instead of her own.
Fearing she would be assaulted, raped or hit upon, she tried to escape via a bathroom window, without success.
Gripped by panic, she leapt off the balcony to get away 'in the way one would do so to escape from a burning building', the reports claim.
It is not yet clear, however, whether Kirsty was at any actual risk of sexual harassment or worse, or whether she merely perceived this was the case after finding herself mistakenly in a room with five strange men.
Investigations are being led by police in Spain along with the family's solicitor in the Alicante province, Luis Miquel Zumaquero, and a Scottish former detective, David Swindle, who famously solved the case of notorious serial killer Peter Tobin.
Kirsty's parents and her widower say they 'will not stop until justice is done'.
