In 10 years imprisonment sentenced to second degree The 43-year-old from Heraklion for the death of his 31-year-old partner November of 2019, after converting the indictment to deadly physical harm. At first instance, the defendant was sentenced to 13 years in prison for premeditated murder with possible malice.
As it states cretalive.gr, in the Mixed Jury Court of Appeal of Eastern Crete was called to testify, at the request of the defense, the medical examiner Mrs. Elena Kraniotis, its director Forensic Unit of PAGNI, whose testimony was highly enlightening so that the court could form a more secure picture of the circumstances in which the unfortunate Cleo lost her life.
In the trial court, the decision had been reached by a majority, as three jurors had found that the defendant should be found guilty of the offense of causing death, which he ultimately did in the second degree.
What the 43-year-old said about drugs, addiction and the moment of death
THE 43 years old in both the first and second trials he maintained that he loved Cleo and that he had never intended to harm her. They had decided together to fight seriously to get free from drugs.
But, on the day the crime finally took place, he realized that the 31-year-old had used drugs secretly. Then he got angry, grabbed her by the blouse and violently shook her. But the Close she was a wretched creature, in shaky health, and quite vulnerable. She had suffered a stroke, lost her speech, developed mobility problems. The defendant was very supportive, while Cleo had to go to a rehabilitation center.
What do the 43-year-old’s lawyers and the victim’s relatives say?
In the statements of the victim’s relatives, it has been mentioned that the 31-year-old loved the accused too much and slept with his photo on her headrest. He again had fluctuations in his behavior. He is described as sometimes being loving and protective and sometimes lashing out at her.
The 43-year-old’s defense attorney, Mr Manos Christofakakis, spoke of an overturning of the first instance decision as the appellate court “changed the charge from manslaughter with probable cause to fatal bodily harm without the intent of grievous bodily harm to the victim. The court accepted that my principal neither wanted, nor sought, nor accepted the death of the victim. I believe that the examination of the medical examiner who prepared the medical report, which came at our request to the Prosecutor’s Office of Appeals, was of pivotal importance since she made it clear that the death was caused by a strong shaking of the head and not by punches. This was what my client argued from the very beginning, as he never admitted that he punched the victim, as the Joint Jury had wrongly accepted.”
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