Benidorm hen party plunge reconstruction raises questions over death of Brit newlywed Kirsty Maxwell
A TV documentary shows three women of a similar age to Kirsty taking part in a reconstruction of her death as experts bid to solve her death riddle
A DEATH fall expert reconstructed Kirsty Maxwell’s fatal Benidorm plunge for a TV documentary in an attempt to solve the riddle.
Specialist Michael Brown asked three women of a similar age and build to climb a replica of the hotel balcony railing that she fell from.
And he concluded that rather than leaping off, newlywed Kirsty, 27, scaled the barrier then clung to it but lost her grip and plummeted ten storeys — raising fresh questions on the horror.
Tragic Kirtsty Maxwell was on a hen-do in Benidorm last year when disaster struck and she fatally lost her life. Moments before her death, the newlywed had wandered into the room of five men.
The 'Benidorm Five' were strangers to her, and it is not known why she came to be in their room, with them insisting she jumped, a claim which her widowed husband rubbished.
Former murder cop David Swindle, whose investigation is featured on BBC show Killed Abroad, said of Mr Brown’s findings: “Kirsty could not have jumped directly over that balcony.
"It seems far more likely that she clambered over. What we found gave us a better idea of the timing, events and different things.
“It’s a small piece in the jigsaw of circumstances that you try to put together. It helps the investigation.”
He added: “Nobody tested that theory. The police in Spain hadn’t used any experts. We will hand the information over to the authorities.”
Kirsty, from Livingston, was on a pal’s hen do in the Spanish resort when she died just seven months after marrying hubby Adam, 28.
After a night out she left her room and went into one next to a mate’s where five Brits were staying, then fell from their balcony.
The men deny all responsibility for her death.
Wearing clothes similar to those she died on the night, the women in the reconstruction took 12 seconds to clamber over the railing.
Mr Brown also examined tears on Kirsty’s denim skirt and a photo of a scrap of the garment snagged on the hotel exterior to produce a graphic of how he believes she fell.
He said: “I believe she was facing into the room at the point that she lost balance or lost her grip.
“She dropped vertically initially before she interacted with features on the building.
“How that loss of balance or loss of grip occurred that’s not something I can hypothesise on. It brings up more questions than answers.
“But the biggest thing that would help is if people actually spoke up.”
Kirsty’s dad Brian Curry, 59, has urged witnesses to come forward in a bid to solve the mystery of the bank worker’s death last April.
He said: “We don’t know how or why Kirsty came to go over that balcony. Right from the start, we feel the investigation has been lax.
“We’ve asked lots of questions that we haven’t had the answers to.
“That’s the only way we’re going to get answers — get everybody who was there around the table and then we can find out the truth and get justice for Kirsty.”
Killed Abroad is on BBC One Scotland on Wednesday at 9pm.
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