The Court of Appeal did not reduce the original sentence of the two young men convicted for the gang rape and murder of Eleni Topaloudi, in November 2018, in Rhodes. The Mixed Jury Court of Appeal, unanimously, "sealed" with its decision the sentence of life imprisonment and an additional 15 years that had been imposed on the two young men in the first instance.
The audience reacted with applause upon hearing the decision, with the president commenting: "Please! This is not a theatre!"
[/P]The court adopted the prosecution's proposal to impose the higher sentences on the convicts found guilty, without any mitigating circumstances. The defence had asked for the recognition, on a case-by-case basis, of the mitigating factors of prior lawful life, subsequent good behaviour after the act, post-adolescence and sincere remorse, in an attempt to reduce the original sentences.
However, the judges decided that the young men should continue to serve the sentence imposed on them in the first instance.
Magda Fyssa and the mothers of Eratou and Myrtou, the mothers who lost their daughters at the hands of their comrades in Folegandros and Mytilene, were at the side of the parents of the unfortunate Eleni.
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