"I asked the mother and she told me that she had never heard of ketamine, she had never heard of this substance," said lawyer Apostolos Lytras of Roula Pispirigou, accused of intentional homicide, a few days after it became known that she was resigning from her defense.
"I did not resign from any defense, I had not undertaken any defense. I had been instructed by the parents to participate in the investigation into the deaths of the children, I had contacted experts," said criminal lawyer Apostolos Lytras, regarding the case of the deaths of the three children in Patras.
Speaking to ANT1 about the Patras case, Apostolos Lytras stressed the following: "until 2-3 days ago, everyone was talking about suffocation. I had no indication of suffocation."
"The possibility of substance administration had been ruled out."
"If I had an accused mother for the deaths of three children, I would decide whether or not to take her on. We had been in contact with both the family and experts and the possibility that there was the administration of a substance had been ruled out," the lawyer also added about the 33-year-old woman.
"If the drug was in the medication the child was taking in any quantity, the mother could claim various things," Apostolos Lytras added, while regarding the last dialogue he had with her after her arrest, he said: "I asked the mother and she told me that she had never heard of ketamine, she had never heard of this substance."
"I did not understand that such a thing could have happened and the reason is that I had many conversations with many people. I wasn't just talking to the mother. I talked to the mother and the father and the mother's sister and the parents of the two children and they all said the same thing. I am the only one who has talked so much with her," the lawyer also noted.
"It didn't cross Manos Daskalakis' mind to do such a thing."
As for Manos Daskalakis, father of the three children and husband of the accused, Mr. Lytras said "I know from him that there was not a single moment when he believed that his wife might have done something to the children. It did not even cross his mind."
As Mr. Lytras pointed out, "this case is not that easy, if it were that easy it would not take the authorities and the forensic community so many months to solve this puzzle. There are still no reports of the first two deaths. Right now there is a scientifically documented other cause of death for the first two children in the forensic reports that exist."
Lytras said that "due to media pressure we are now reaching the point where coroners are changing their findings, but when I talked to people I had two coroner's reports with a different cause of death for the first children and for the third child that there was no suffocation."
"I want to believe that both our culture and our legal culture should make us respect the presumption of innocence."
"I want to believe that our culture and our legal culture should make us respect the presumption of innocence. Even the worst criminal has a right to a defense and a presumption of innocence. Right now she is an accused," the criminal lawyer pointed out, concluding that "we need to look at the other forensic reports, to see the amount of ketamine found in the third child."
Source: Proto Thema
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