The Joint Jury Court of Appeal of Crete imposed a sentence of only eight years' imprisonment on the 55-year-old husband of 47-year-old Efis Tsichlaki, who was found guilty of manslaughter with intent in a calm state of mind.
From the eight years, the 17 months he had remained in custody before the trial of the case in the first instance, when it was found that he had violated the restrictive conditions, will be deducted.
It is recalled that in the trial held in 2017 in Rethymno, the accused had been acquitted by a narrow majority, while the death of Efi Tshichlaki was then attributed to suicide.
The lawyer of the victim's family, Cleo Papapantoleon, expressed her satisfaction that after six years of struggles and repeated postponements, it was proven that Effi Tshichlaki had been murdered by her husband, who even made sure to falsify the crime scene in order to claim that his wife committed suicide.
Her husband was found guilty of manslaughter
Guilty of manslaughter with intent in a calm state of mind, earlier, by a vote of 5 for and 2 against, the 55-year-old husband of Efi Tshichlaki, who in March 2016 was found dead with a bullet in her head inside her home.
The guilt of the 55-year-old husband of Efis Tsichlaki, who was found dead with a bullet in her head in March 2016, was recommended on Tuesday morning by the Prosecutor of the Joint Jury Court of Appeal of Western Crete.
The prosecutor requested that the defendant be denied the mitigating circumstance of prior lawful life, given both the drug weapons cases etc. in which he had been involved, and the fact that, prior to the trial of the case in the first degree, he had violated the restrictive conditions.
In particular, the prosecutor proposed to the jury to find the accused guilty of manslaughter - not intentional - citing all the evidence that emerged from all three forensic reports, from the report of the armourer - technical adviser, from the police autopsy and from the witness statements. She also suggested his guilt for illegal carrying and possession of weapons.
"Efi Tshichlaki was an educated, polite, social woman," the prosecutor stressed, to point out, addressing the jury, that she ruled out the suicide version.
Efi Tshichlaki died in two stages, the prosecutor said. She was attacked by her husband who beat her, then attempted to immobilize her by strangulation and while the victim was on the floor unable to resist, she was shot in the head.
The prosecutor described the couple's life as an ordinary relationship, and said she did not consider that there was premeditation on the part of the accused.
This was preceded by an apology from the 55-year-old defendant, who failed to explain how the gun was found over the shoulder of the deceased and not at the level of her legs or even her waist.
In addition, inaccuracies were found regarding what preceded Effie's death.
The defendant claimed that upon entering the house, he found the victim in the kitchen and gave her his gun to keep and that at the time of the fatality he was in the bedroom bathroom.
Source: protothema.gr
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