In an absolutely cold manner, the 23-year-old who murdered his grandmother in her house in Chrissochori Kavala described to the police during his apology what happened on the fateful night of the murder.
The 23-year-old immediately admitted that he hit her[/B] and even said he did not expect her to die as he had done it before. "I didn't want that to happen, I didn't think grandma would die, because I hit her like that before and nothing happened to her," he said, leaving police officers speechless.
He said that day he returned to his house at 8:30pm and then went to his room and watched TV. "I fell asleep at about twenty to twelve or quarter to twelve, before midnight and at dawn today 14-03-2022 around 05:00 my grandmother woke me up shouting get me water quickly. I in my sleep got very angry and told her no and she kept on shouting in a voice that is irritating, very loud. I got even more angry and got up and went to her," the 23-year-old described, adding that his 80-year-old grandmother was sitting on the couch.
The details of the beating are chilling. The 23-year-old admitted that he punched her hard in the eyes and right leg until his grandmother passed out and collapsed on the floor.
"She had made me so angry that I started hitting her hard with punches in the eyes and right leg. She after a while slipped off the couch and fell to the floor on her backside and ribs making a sound, a groan and I heard a crack when she touched her chest down and then she stayed like that, she didn't move," he said.
At that moment, it seems as he described to police he realised his grandmother had died as he said in his apology "her rib cage wouldn't move, it was hard and puffy" while "her mouth had white drool and her tongue was pale". He said he tried to help her "but she wouldn't move."
The 23-year-old even told police officers that for a moment he thought his grandmother was making fun of him "because she used to make jokes like that and stick her tongue out" but eventually he realized that "grandma died."
Even then, however, the 23-year-old kept his cool, saying in his apology that he went to his father who was asleep and "I yelled at my dad, get up man, your mother is sick".
The offender went on to describe a theatre of absurdity with his father starring this time in terms of dealing with the now dead 82-year-old woman, with the father slow to get out of bed and finally, when he did, on the lifeless body of the dead woman, the offender reported his father telling him: "you're kidding, grandma's not dead, you're kidding me. I told him I'm not joking and he replied call somewhere, call an ambulance," said the perpetrator.
From that moment begins, as described by the 23-year-old in his apology, a marathon of phone calls to the ambulance, Kavala hospital and a friendly person, who recommended him to call a funeral home.
From that moment begins, as described by the 23-year-old in his apology, a marathon of phone calls to the ambulance, Kavala hospital and a friendly person, who recommended him to call a funeral home. According to his descriptions, the ambulance arrived at 06.30 and after a few hours, the police arrived at the scene. However, at the end of his apology, the perpetrator said "I missed him a lot and I regret it, he is the man who raised me."
The profile of the 23-year-old, according to his lawyer
Speaking to protothema.gr, the defense attorney of the 23-year-old, Manolis Vonikakis, said that at the age of 10, the perpetrator was confirmed with mental retardation, while in the army bipolar disorder and schizophrenia were confirmed. "From the age of 10 to 18 he was raped by his father, as well as his sister. He was also raped when he was 12 by a 17-year-old Bulgarian farm worker who lived in the village and there is a conviction, and he also raped his sister. So we are talking about a man who, in his critical childhood and adolescence, was a victim of rape and daily brutal behaviour in a morbid environment by a mentally handicapped mother who abandoned them from the age of 10 and a father, also mentally handicapped, drunk, who beat and raped them," he noted.
As Mr. Vonikakis went on to say, this is not the first time the perpetrator had beaten the elderly woman but the 18th, however this time the result was fatal. In fact, the neighbors who knew what was happening, had made too many complaints to the police and the perpetrator had been brought to the prosecutor many times.
"The prosecutor's office of Kavala, since 2017, most recently on September 16, 2021, ordered four times his confinement in the psychiatric hospital. For a long time he was hospitalized and then the doctors decided that he did not need further hospitalization because his condition was improving and he was discharged. He was discharged in October and the proposal of the prosecutor for involuntary hospitalization to the Kavala District Court, which was made on September 16, was rejected by the court that was tried on November 22, 2021, on the grounds that his condition has improved," he said.
Two months later, the perpetrator beat his grandmother again and was handcuffed and taken to the police, while the three-judge district court released him, Mr. Vonikakis said, stressing that the perpetrator has the unaccountable and must be treated as a man with serious psychiatric problems. "This case demonstrates and 'exposes' the inability we have as a system to deal with these patients," he stressed.
Source: Proto Thema
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