Michael Dermot McArdle is wanted in Spain to serve the twoyear sentence for the manslaughter of his wife Kelly Anne Corcoran.

Michael Dermot McArdle is wanted in Spain to serve the twoyear sentence for the manslaughter of his wife Kelly Anne Corcoran.

McArdle was due to hand himself in to the Spanish authorities last September but he failed to do so.

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.

Yesterday 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, Brookfield, Heynestown, Dundalk was arrested last month on foot of a warrant issued by a Spanish judge that was subsequently endorsed by the High Court in Dublin.

In the warrant seeking his surrender the court heard McArdle was convicted of his wife’s manslaughter at a court in Malaga in October 2008.

His wife died two days after falling from the balcony of room 421 of Marbella’s five-star Melia Don Pepe Hotel following an argument with her husband.

He was also ordered to pay his two sons by Ms Corcoran, Mark and Paul, €60,000 each in compensation for the loss of their mother.

He was also ordered to pay her parents, Ted and Bridie, €100,000.:Text may be subject to copyright.This blog does not claim copyright to any such text. Copyright remains with the original copyright holder.