On Tuesday morning, March 15, the 23-year-old perpetrator who allegedly beat his grandmother to death in the morning of Monday, March 14, in Chrysochori of the municipality of Nestos was taken to the Kavala courthouse.
The defense attorney of the 23-year-old confessed perpetrator, Manolis Vonikakis, referred in his statements to a delinquent character. He argued, according to Kavalanews, that there are over 40 complaints from the neighbors of the young man.
He also stressed that it is an accredited mental illness. He noted that the 23-year-old should be in a psychiatric hospital.
For his part, the president of Chrysochori, Municipality of Dalkaranis, in a statement to protothema.gr, stressed that the ugly incident has alarmed their village and regretted the bad end of the 83-year-old woman. In fact, he stresses that several times he had sent the Help at Home service to strengthen and help the elderly woman but always the 23-year-old perpetrator with his father, chased them away from the house.
He killed her "for a trivial reason"
It all started late Sunday night when the 23-year-old argued with the 83-year-old woman for a trivial reason. According to reports, the unfortunate elderly woman woke up in the middle of the night and asked her grandson for a glass of water. Then, he allegedly lost his temper and in a state of rampage started beating her until 4 am on Monday morning! The elderly woman could not withstand the savage beating and ended up dead.
Tragic irony is that the father of the 23-year-old and son of the 83-year-old woman was a few feet away as he was sleeping in a cottage in the yard of his elderly mother's house.
When the 23-year-old realized that his grandmother was not breathing he called a funeral home telling them that his grandmother had fallen and was probably killed. The funeral home employee, suspicious, told him to call a doctor and the police. When the police arrived at the house they saw the elderly woman savagely beaten and requested the assistance of the coroner to explain the 83-year-old woman's death while they detained the 23-year-old at the police station.
The coroner who examined the 83-year-old woman immediately notified the police that the elderly woman died from a savage beating and not from a fall as claimed by her 23-year-old grandson. It is worth mentioning that the 23-year-old young man is facing psychiatric problems while his father is disabled.
The official announcement of the ELAS
"After coordinated actions of the Public Security Team of the Kavala Security Department, the homicide of an 82-year-old domestic woman, committed today, in a settlement of Kavala, was discovered.
For the case, a 23-year-old national, a relative of the victim, was arrested, against whom a criminal case of a felony nature was formed, for the offences of manslaughter with intent, domestic violence and violation of court decisions.
Specifically, today in the early morning hours inside the victim's home, the 23-year-old man used violence to inflict bodily harm on her for a trivial reason, resulting in her death.
After informing the authorities and after a thorough investigation, the 23-year-old was found to be the perpetrator of this criminal act, who during his examination confessed to the act.
The preliminary investigation is being conducted by the Kavala Security Department and the arrested man will be led to the Prosecutor of the Kavala Municipal Court."
Source: Proto Thema
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