周四，匈牙利布达佩斯大都会法院判处一名 37 岁的爱尔兰男子 14 年有期徒刑 [1]。该判决针对的是其于 2024 年在布达佩斯杀害一名来自俄勒冈州波特兰市、年仅 31 岁的美籍游客 Mackenzie Michalski 的罪行 [1]。法院裁定，该罪犯在服刑期间不得申请假释，且剩余刑期将计入其已被羁押约一年半的时间 [1]。刑满释放后，他将面临驱逐出境的命运 [1]。
案件细节显示，嫌疑人（警方以 L.T.M.代称）于 2024 年 11 月 5 日在布达佩斯的一家夜店结识了受害者 Michalski[1]。次日即 11 月 7 日，该男子被捕并供认不讳 [1]。据指控，嫌疑人在与受害者亲密接触过程中将其殴打致死并用绳索勒颈 [1]。随后，他清理了现场并将尸体藏匿于衣柜中 [1]。最终，他将装有尸体的手提箱丢弃在距离布达佩斯约 150 公里的 Szigliget 镇附近的树林里 [1]。
作为判决的一部分，该嫌疑人还需支付高达 250 万福林（约合 7,995 美元）的法庭费用 [1]。目前，其律师已针对这一判决结果提出了上诉 [1]。
The Budapest Metropolitan Court sentenced a 37-year-old Irish man to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole on Thursday [1]. The conviction stems from the murder of Mackenzie Michalski, a 31-year-old tourist from Portland, Oregon, who went missing at a nightclub in Budapest on November 5, 2024 [1].
The suspect, identified by police as L.T.M., met the victim while socializing and subsequently took her back to his apartment where he strangled her during an intimate encounter before beating her body into submission [1]. After cleaning the scene, he concealed Michalski's remains in a wardrobe for several days [1]. He later placed the corpse into a suitcase and discarded it in woods near Szigliget town, approximately 150 kilometers from Budapest [1].
L.T.M. was arrested on November 7, 2024, shortly after confessing to the crime [1]. The court ruled that his remaining sentence would be served without parole; any time he spent in pre-trial detention, amounting to about one and a half years, will count toward his total term of imprisonment [1]. Upon completion of his sentence, L.T.M. is scheduled for deportation from Hungary [1].
In addition to the prison term, the court ordered L.T.M. to pay 25 million Hungarian Forints (approximately $7,995) in trial costs [1]. His lawyer has already filed an appeal against the verdict [1].