An Irish man is sentenced to 14 years in prison in Hungary for the killing of an American nurse, Mackenzie Michalski, in Budapest in 2024. According to court reporting across multiple outlets, the conviction follows a case involving a one-night encounter. The defendant, 38, rejects the prosecution’s account in different ways, including claims put forward by his defence that Michalski died from an accident during consensual sex. One report says the judge dismisses the claim that the killing was consensual or accidental. Other reporting states the court finds that Michalski is strangled to death and that her body is later taken and left in the woods. Multiple sources describe the sentencing as a 14-year term issued by a Hungarian court. One outlet also says the judge criticises the defendant’s attitude during sentencing, while the overall substance of the decision is that the man is convicted of murder rather than an accidental death. The case focuses on the circumstances of the encounter and the subsequent handling of Michalski’s body after her death.