An Irishman has pleaded not guilty to the premeditated murder of his Japanese ex-wife in Hungary.
The 43-year-old was arrested on Tuesday by Hungarian police, six days after the woman’s death in an apartment fire in Budapest on 29 January.
A court yesterday ordered the pre-trial detention of the man for one month on the grounds of deliberate premeditated homicide.
The suspect, who does not live in Hungary, has appealed against the decision, according to a spokesperson for Budapest’s Metropolitan Prosecution Office.
Firefighters found the remains of the 43-year-old woman’s body in the apartment where she lived in the city’s fifth district on 29…