A Co Louth man who was convicted in Spain for the manslaughter of his wife has had extradition proceedings against him adjourned at the High Court in Dublin.
Michael Dermot McArdle is wanted in Spain so that he can serve the two-year sentence he received for killing his wife Kelly Anne Corcoran.
The mother-of-two died from injuries sustained when she fell from a hotel balcony while on a family holiday in Marbella on the Costa Del Sol on February 11th, 2000.
McArdle was convicted in 2008 but was allowed to return to Ireland pending an appeal. He was due to hand himself in to the Spanish authorities to begin his jail sentence last September, but failed to do so.
Mr Justice John Edwards, sitting at the Criminal Courts of Justice, remanded McArdle (41) until March 9th on foot of a European Arrest Warrant seeking his surrender to Spain.
McArdle, of Brookfield, Heynestown, Dundalk, was arrested last month on foot of a warrant issued by a Spanish judge. The warrant was subsequently endorsed by the High Court in Dublin.
McArdle was convicted of his wife’s manslaughter at a court in Malaga in October 2008. She died two days after falling from the balcony of Marbella’s five-star Melia Don Pepe Hotel.
He was jailed for two years and ordered to pay his two sons by Ms Corcoran, Mark and Paul, €60,000 each for the loss of their mother. He was also ordered to pay her parents €100,000.
