BENIDORM plunge victim Kirsty Maxwell’s family have had their hopes of a positive response from police about witnesses to the tragedy dashed.
The judge probing five British men over Mrs Maxwell’s death fall had ordered police to report to her on work they had done to find and interview guests at the Hotel Presidente opposite the block from where the 27-year-old Scot fell.
The family’s Spanish lawyer Luis Miguel Zumaquero forced the development after lodging appeals with the court about the identification of witnesses.
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It has emerged police have sent judge Ana Isabel Garcia-Galbis a one-page written reply stating: “No witnesses to the incident have been found in the hotel.”
The statement, incorporated into the court files on the case, sheds no light on what work detectives have done – and whether they have been back to the hotel to ask for the contact details of guests whose windows overlooked the Apartamentos Payma from where Kirsty fell.
Mr Zumaquero told of concern at police efforts to make sure they had spoken to all potential witnesses in a submission sent to the investigating judge last month.
He said many guests at the Hotel Presidente had not been questioned by police and Spanish- speaking holidaymakers had been spotted “gesticulating to police wanting to explain something”.
The submission was lodged after former detective David Swindle, who is assisting Mrs Maxwell’s family, called on hotel chiefs to send posters from the family to residents appealing for information.