MAN TO STAND TRIAL IN HUNGARY ON MURDER RAP

THE trial of an Irish man who allegedly murdered an American nurse last year is to begin next February.

- BY SARAH SLATER

Mackenzie Michalski, 31, from Fredonia, New York, was on holiday in the Hungarian capital of Budapest was last seen alive at a nightclub in the city on November 5 last and was listed as missing by Budapest Police Headquarters later that day.

A 38-year-old Irishman, who worked in marketing, has allegedly admitted to killing Ms Michalski, a nurse practitioner accidentally, after claiming they became intimate at a rented apartment while on holiday.