A British man has died after being flung from his car in a horror crash on the southern Costa Blanca.
The 54-year-old was travelling in a Nissan Qashqai with three others, also British, in El Campello last Friday, when they were rear-ended by a BMW.
The car behind them, according to the Guardia Civil, was being driven by Madison Smyth, the wife of Johnny Smyth, who is accused of the murder Northern Irishman John George.
Smyth, who has worked as an Only Fans model, tested negative for alcohol and drugs and she was released by the Guardia Civil after being informed that she was under investigation for manslaughter.
According to local newspaper La Informacion, she was already free on bail after being arrested twice since last September.
The first time was at a checkpoint in Torrevieja, where she was found with almost a kilo of crystal meth, and the second time in December in Orihuela Costa after the Guardia Civil found two loaded pistols in a car where three other men were also present, one of whom fled.
In both cases, she was released on bail, the first on €20,000, after reportedly being represented by lawyer Alicia Grau Cordoba.
The fatal accident in El Campello occurred when Smyth was driving a BMW with her husband, Northern Irish national Jonathan Alan Smyth.
He is accused of fatally shooting John George in Rojales in December 2024.
He is currently free on a €100,000 bail after the Torrevieja court granted the request of his defense attorneys, Francisco Miguel Galiana Botella and Alejandro Murcia.
According to the police report, the accident occurred around 7pm last Friday (January 16), on the A-70 highway, heading towards Valencia.
For reasons still under investigation, the car driven by Smyth is said to have rear-ended a Nissan Qashqai carrying four people: two men and two women between the ages of 54 and 59, all British.
Due to the impact, the Nissan left the road and crashed into a semi-rigid barrier in the median of the highway.
One 54-year-old Brit, who was not wearing a seatbelt, was ejected from the vehicle and died.
Paramedics raced to the scene but were unable to save his life, while the other occupants were unharmed. Smyth and her husband were also uninjured.
