THE family of a woman who fell to her death from a hotel balcony in Benidorm have made a plea for witnesses to come forward on the seventh anniversary of the tragedy.
Kirsty Maxwell died in mysterious circumstances on April 29 2017 while on a hen party weekend.
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The 27-year-old, from Livingston, West Lothian, plunged from the tenth floor of the Apartamentos Payma, off the balcony of a room occupied by five Britons.
A Spanish judge ruled that there was ‘no evidence’ the room’s occupants, a group of friends from Nottingham, were involved in the tragedy.
Kirsty’s parents Brian and Denise Curry are still fighting for answers and have made a renewed appeal of social media for people who may hold vital information to come forward.
They want to trace a group of Spanish-speaking people who were residing in an overlooking hotel and may have witnessed the incident.
The family are also looking for an English-speaking couple aged 40 to 50 who saw Kirsty’s body at the Payma pool when they checked out of their room and a customer at a nearby cafe who was talking about seeing a girl climbing or falling from a balcony.
They also want to hear from an English-speaking couple who were heard speaking about Kirsty’s death in the same cafe on the morning of the incident.
The family are being assisted by former senior detective David Swindle.
Posting on social media, Mr Swindle said: “Despite the passage of time people will remember such important information.
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“Don’t assume we or the police know what you know.”
Kirsty, who got married to husband Adam only months before the tragedy, fell from the balcony less than 12 hours after arriving in Benidorm.
She had returned to her apartment on the ninth floor in the early hours and was filmed asleep shortly before 7am on the morning she died.
About an hour later, it is believed that she mistakenly entered an apartment on the floor above, which was occupied by the five British men.
Spanish judge Ana Isabel Garcia-Galbis ruled in September 2019 there was no proof that the death was a homicide or that the five men could have been involved.
Mr and Mrs Curry’s legal team have claimed that the judge mistakenly made the amount of alcohol Mrs Maxwell drank the night before her death a defining factor in what happened to her.
They have also highlighted her failure to sanction DNA tests on the men.
The couple launched the Kirsty Maxwell Charity to offer emotional and financial support to grieving relatives of people who have died overseas.