THE family of balcony fall victim Kirsty Maxwell have been hit with a heartbreaking blow after a judge snubbed a fresh probe into the tragedy.

Four separate legal requests from the 27-year-old's family were said to have been rejected as the second anniversary of her death approaches.

It comes almost a year after Kirsty's aunt and hen-do pals returned to Spain in the hunt for answers over why the bank worker fell 100ft from a hotel balcony in 2017.

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Despite having to endure the trauma of retracing their steps over the fateful night of Kirsty's death, they bravely revisited My Pretty Paym to hand out flyers appealing for information.

Kirsty's devoted parents, Brian and Denise Curry, and her husband, Adam Maxwell, asked judge Ana Isabel Garcia-Galbis to help them track down potential witnesses.

They requested the names and contact details of holidaymakers staying on the top floors of the four-star Hotel President - opposite the apartment block where Kirsty died on April 29.

Their plea followed a social media campaign to track down an English-speaking couple who checked out of the hotel shortly after Kirsty, from Livingston, plunged to her death.

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The family's Spanish lawyer, Lorena Soler Bernabeu, urged the judge to allow an architect to analyse the inside of the apartment Kirsty fell from to complement a study by biomechanics expert Mike Brown, who appeared in last August's BBC documentary Killed Abroad.

A third request - included in a seven-page written submission - involved a plea for more detailed information about DNA tests on samples taken from Kirsty's body and permission to study the same samples at a specialist Scottish lab.

Experts who analysed material taken from under the Scots bank worker's nails - and other parts of her body including her hands and armpits - said last year they had found no "foreign DNA".

However all four of the crucial requests were said to have been rejected by the judge - who said it would cause "unnecessary delays."

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Spanish judge Garcia-Galbis said: "The procedures being proposed can only lead to unnecessary delays.

"Spanish criminal law establishes a general timeframe for a criminal judicial investigation of six months, which can be increased to 18 when that inquiry is declared complex.

"Following the declaration of complexity of this particular case, the 18 months foreseen for its duration have now been exceeded."

The judge previously made it clear she is just a step away from ending her probe - telling the suspects they may face no charges or trial.

Five bodybuilders, all from Nottingham, are being investigated for the death. They deny wrongdoing.

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Kirsty's untimely death came just seven months after her own wedding to hubby Adam, 29, in 2016.

Speaking as part of an appeal for justice last month, dad Brian said : "We're coming up for two years this April and we never thought we'd still be here - we thought it would be done and dusted.

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"But we are Kirsty's voice. She is not here to speak.

"We continue to fight for truth, answers and justice."