Brit Suspect Captured in Hungary & Drunk Charged With Killing Frenchman In Budapest
- 27 Jul 2022 12:13 PM
- Hungary Matters
A British national wanted on an international arrest warrant was captured in Hungary, Hungarian law enforcement said on Tuesday.
The UK authorities issued an international arrest warrant against a 36-year-old British national after he was suspected of abusing, strangling and robbing a prostitute in a London hotel in 2019.
The Hungarian law enforcement authorities arrested the man on July 22 in Budapest’s 6th district in cooperation with their UK counterparts, the police statements said.
While in a separate case, the Budapest Public Prosecutor’s Office has charged a man with US-British-Hungarian citizenship with stabbing a French national in Budapest.
According to the charges, the accused arrived in Budapest in December 2019, and on the night of February 7, 2020, he drank a large amount of alcohol in several pubs in Budapest.
In the small hours of Feb. 8, the accused ran up to a 25-year-old Frenchman walking on the pavement near Károlyi Gardens in central Budapest, hit him in the face twice and stabbed him in the chest with a knife that he had on his person.
The victim died on the spot. The 28-year-old accused was charged with homicide.
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