The testimony of Roula Pispirigou's sister seems to shed light on the well-kept secret about the time of Irida's murder.
As the police editor of the newspapers "Ta Nea" and "To Vima" Vassilis Lampropoulos revealed on MEGA's main newscast, the sister of the 33-year-old accused, Dimitra Pispirigou, in her testimony to the GADA, did not clearly specify the time that Roula Pispirigou was away from her, at dawn on March 21, when she got up to go to see Iris because she cried.
This is a crucial piece of evidence, as investigators believe that it was at that moment that the unfortunate infant, whose death has now been scientifically proven to be due to suffocation, was murdered.
Recall that Demetra Pispirigou, in early April 2021, had claimed that Roula Pispirigou got out of bed and came back in a minute after putting a pacifier on 6-month-old Iris - not enough time for the baby's drowning.
However, as she has now testified in Homicide, after Roula Pispirigou returned to bed, Demetra asked her "if she fed the little one," which obviously could not have happened in a minute's absence and thus was appreciated by the defendant's sister, due to sleep, had no sense of time - she, after all, allegedly testified that she did not know exactly - so it may be that the 33-year-old defendant was gone much longer.
The mystery of Iris' time of death and the contradictions
The contradictions in the facts surrounding the death of Iris Daskalaki, however, had begun to re-examine the authorities after the developments with the death of Georgina and as experts expressed estimates that the case of the sudden death of the 6-month-old infant had been closed prematurely.
Initially, her death was attributed to sinus node agenesis, a rare cardiac disease, however, there were many questions that remained unanswered, with contradictions between witnesses puzzling and the exact time of death still a mystery today.
"The most common findings we look for to be able to determine the time of death are cadaveric hypostases, muscle rigidity and of course body temperature," forensic pathologist Dimitris Galenteris had said.
In the case of little Iris, however, it was not a coroner who was called in to assess the time of death, but the ambulance, which was alerted by the Pispirigou sisters, who made resuscitation efforts on the spot to save the baby.
The contradictions that trouble
"Because I found a child dead, am I an accomplice? So the doctors who found two, both Malena and Georgina, are not accomplices?" the sister of the 33-year-old accused was saying at the time.
The aunt of the deceased infant is the first to enter the room that morning, at the mother's suggestion. In her initial statement to police, she will describe the nightmare moments.
The first statement of Dimitra Pispirigou
"The baby woke up during the night once, around 02.30. His mom went over him, put her pacifier on him, covered her and the baby went back to sleep," Dimitra Pispirigou had said, among other things.
However, in an interview she had given, the aunt revealed that the baby also woke up at 7.30 am. Something she had not mentioned in her original statement.
"Around 7.30 or so, the child cried, we both heard it, I tell her Roula: 'You go,' because in my sleep I didn't want to get up myself. Roula went, put the pacifier on her, covered her up and she went back to sleep."
Different times she will also tell about the time she found the baby dead. In her statement the day after the death, she will say that at 11.30 she found Iris dead, at 11.37 she called the ambulance and 5 minutes later an ambulance arrived at the house. She is the same person, however, who had said in an interview that:
"Half past eleven is the time of the child's death, not the time I found the child. But if the baby was found dead at 10.45, why was the ambulance call made... an hour later?"
EKAB audio: we have a lady reporting a six-month-old unconscious child at 11:37.
But if the baby was found dead at 10.45, why was the ambulance call made... an hour later?
The mother herself, on the other hand, the social media lyricist Roula Pispirigou, was talking about the loss of her baby at... dawn.
And not once, but twice. On September 2, 2021, she wrote: "I only enjoyed you for 6 months and suddenly one dawn you were gone." And on September 23, he wrote again: "The last photo of you that dawn you left."
What (didn't) Georgina saw?
Roula Pispirigou will initially say that Georgina was in front of Iris's death. "Georgina is a brilliant child who understood everything. She was afraid because the incident with the baby happened in front of her eyes," the 33-year-old defendant had stated.
Something that, a few days later, she would refute, in her interview with Angeliki Nikolouli.
"Georgina didn't wake up either. Didn't she hear anything from the baby?" the experienced journalist asked her and she replied. She didn't see."
However, the version of the children's aunt, Dimitra Pispirigou, was different: "The ambulance came. They took the child, I remember Roula and Mano screaming and telling them 'please save him. It's the second child'. Georgina woke up and asked me what happened."
Manos Daskalakis also remembered differently what happened in the house: "I was in shock, I don't know what to start and next door Georgina, Dimitra had pulled her and was shouting 'the child. Don't take this child from me'", was the statement of Manos Daskalakis.
Source: in.gr
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