An Irish man suspected of killing his Dublin partner in a Spanish hotel has been refused bail and remanded in prison.
The 30-year-old murder suspect appeared before a closed court sitting yesterday after being arrested on Sunday night in Salou.
He was discovered beside the body of 36-year-old Kirsty Ward - a mother-of-two.
The hearing at Tarragona’s Court of Violence Against Women, a specialist court, took place behind-closed-doors and no details of what was said at the hearing were made public.
A spokesman for the investigating magistrate confirmed: “The Court of Violence Against Women in Tarragona today received the man arrested over the death of his partner at a hotel in Salou on Sunday.
“The investigating magistrate agreed to provisionally remand him in prison without bail.
“The case has been classified as a crime of homicide/assasination and will be categorised more specifically as the investigation progresses.”
Formal charges are only laid in Spain shortly before trial. The suspect has now been formally declared an ‘investigado’ - literally a person under investigation - following the hearing.
Reporting by Gerard Couzens
