With the deposition of hundreds of photos taken by the Police and the projection of a video of the route followed by the perpetrators of the quadruple murder from the house where they were staying in Protaras to the restaurant where the quadruple murder was committed in Ayia Napa, on the night of June 23, 2016, The hearing before the Permanent Criminal Court of Larnaca - Famagusta began today.
Victims of the attack are businessman Fanos Kalopsidiotis, police officer Elias Hadjiefthymiou, his wife Skevi Hadjiefthymiou and Yiani Vogli, one of the perpetrators.
The accused are Loy Dejan 42 years old, Marios Christodoulou otherwise Benny 39 years old, Panagiotis Pentavkas 38 years old and Sofia Grigoriou 28 years old, who face together the accusations of conspiracy to murder, premeditated murder, attempted murder, premeditated acts bodily harm, possession of a Class B firearm, possession of a Class A firearm, possession of a Class B firearm and possession of a Class A firearm.
The four defendants were transported to the courtroom of the Criminal Court, accompanied by armed police officers of the MAAD, who were by their side throughout the trial, wearing bulletproof vests. The courtroom was also filled with police officers from various services of the Force, while everyone who entered the courtroom, including journalists, went through a police checkpoint.
During today's trial, which started at around ten in the morning and ended at three in the afternoon, four police officers testified as prosecutors, three of whom serve in the Photography, Image and Graphics Laboratory of the Criminal Investigation Service of the Police Headquarters and the fourth in the Police Directorate. Famagusta.
The first to testify was Marios Charalambous, who serves in the TAE Headquarters, who read before the Criminal Court the testimony he gave to the Police and presented as evidence photographs he received from a total of 28 scenes in Famagusta, Nicosia and Limassol, which Anrepos pointed out to the Police. was sentenced last October to life in prison. His fiancée, Sotira Neophytou, was sentenced to five months in prison.
Charalambos Andreou is the person who confessed to the Police that he was driving the car used by the two perpetrators of the quadruple murder to go to the scene. One of the two perpetrators used the same car to escape.
The second prosecution witness was the police officer Pavlos Ektoridis, who presented as evidence the photos he received from the autopsies of Skevi Hatziefthymiou and Yani Vogli, which were taken at the Nicosia General Hospital at the suggestion of the medical examiner Sophocles Sophocles.
The witness also testified that he took photos from the forensic examination of police officer George Charalambous, who was at the scene of the murders, was injured during the attack and was treated at the Nicosia General Hospital. He also submitted photos from the car of the accused Sofia Grigoriou.
Police witness Stavros Vassiliou, who serves at the Famagusta Police Department, testified and photographed the scene in a field in Ayia Napa, where the car used by the perpetrators to escape from the murder scene was abandoned and set on fire. He also said that upon arrival at the scene he found that the car had been completely destroyed by fire, that in the back seat was a burnt firearm, while a burnt plate with the car registration numbers was on the asphalt pavement of the road.
The witness presented as evidence to the Court the burnt firearm, two burnt firearm cartridges and two exploded cartridges and two projectiles found in the back seat of the car, a burnt registration plate of the vehicle, a burnt metal plate that is part of the car, a burnt cartridge spring, 16 exploded firearm cartridges, 12 projectiles and cartridges.
Stavros Vassileiou also said that he took a sample from Loy Dejan for firing on the remains of a firearm, while he submitted photos from scenes suggested to him by police officer George Charalambous and Panagiotis Kallitsionis, security guard of Fanos Kalopskitanotis.
The fourth witness for the accusation was the chief guard Marios Petridis, who presented as evidence photographs he took from the restaurant The Stone Garden located on Katalimaton Street where the quadruple murder was committed, from the autopsy performed by Medical Examiner Sophocles Sophocles Sophocles F. , from an apartment in Aglantzia and from a car belonging to two of the accused and from the holiday home in Protaras, where the two perpetrators were hosted before the murder was committed.
Marios Petridis also submitted photos he received from the abandoned Hotel School in Nicosia, where the day after the murder, the wanted Alex Boureli from Limassol, where he was hiding, was transported by Charalambos Andreou and Sotira Neophytou.
The witness also stated that he received photos of the bodies of the four victims upon their arrival at the morgue of the Nicosia General Hospital.
Then there was a 31-minute video shot by Marios Petridis in which there are shots from the outside of the restaurant where the quadruple murder was committed, from the roof and from various angles of the restaurant. The route taken by the perpetrators from the holiday home in Protaras until their arrival at the restaurant where the crime was committed was also videotaped.
Specifically, the witness was a co-driver in a car driven by another police officer and was filming from the cottage in Protaras and various stages of the route can be seen such as the roundabout of the Ayia Napa Police Station, the roundabout at the exit of the Municipality, the highway - Larnaca, the entrance from the left in Ayia Napa and the route to the restaurant, as Charalambos Andreou had mentioned in his testimony.
The case was scheduled to continue tomorrow and the day after, however, the Prosecution's representative and the defense attorneys requested that they be given time to present admissible facts and to give further evidence to the defendants' lawyers.
The President of the Criminal Court appointed February 7,8, 9 and XNUMX as the next defendants in the case, while until then he ordered that the four defendants be kept in the Central Prisons.
Source: KYPE