A British woman is facing life in prison for allegedly pushing her decade-younger boyfriend off the balcony of a 5-star hotel last March. Mary Meyers Kayley, 31, is standing trial for murdering Pegram Reece, 22, after prosecutors say she found out he had cheated on her with an ex-girlfriend, a Turkish court heard Friday.
The two had been drinking so heavily at the lavish hotel in Antalya, Turkey, that Kayley had to be helped to the couple’s fifth floor suite, the court heard. Some time later, a fight broke out, according to the prosecutor. Earlier in the day they had played backgammon and visited a tattoo parlor, where she allegedly bragged that her boyfriend was “one of the most important drug dealers in England.” When they told her drugs were prohibited in Italy, she apparently became agitated.
Investigators found the young man’s lifeless body on the sidewalk below and Kayley insinuated that he had jumped in despair after she told him she wanted to break up. She also said blood found on the carpet was from a cut on her thumb, but it was later identified as Reece’s.