After the shocking testimonies given last Monday in the audience of the Mixed Jury Court of Appeal of Athens regarding the circumstances of the rape and murder of Eleni Topaloudi, the trial for this case is expected to continue today with the testimonies of the parents of the victimized student. The testimony of Mr. Io. Topaloudis and his wife Koula Armoutidou, comes in the wake of what was described in the previous trial, important witnesses, such as the coroner who conducted the autopsy - autopsy on the body of Eleni Topaloudi and the Coast Guard who solved the case and arrested the two young men, who are now sitting in the court of appeal, sentenced in the first instance to life imprisonment and an additional 15 years each for the murder and rape of the 21-year-old girl.
"A child with dreams for his future lost his life unjustly. Today Eleni is here present and I will always be in our hearts!", had said in his testimony at the trial in the first instance the father of the murdered girl to then refer to what his family experienced when all contact with their child had been lost. "On Monday 26/11/2018, Monday, I spoke with her for the last time and on Tuesday 27/11/2018 her mother spoke with her for the last time. Since Thursday evening we had been inhabited by snakes. After a while we received a call from the police station in Didymoteicho. They showed me the photo with a tattoo on her leg. We went to Rhodes. On November 30 it was confirmed that it was Eleni. I hope no parent goes through what I went through. I couldn't go to the morgue. My brother went. People left under our feet", Mr. Topaloudis had also testified and with tears in his eyes he said that when he visited the house where his daughter lived as a student in Rhodes, the washing machine was in operation. "The washing machine was on. She had left a half-eaten apple in the fridge and half a piece of chewing gum. He was going to come back our child hadn't arranged anything! With tears in our eyes we were trying to collect her things," the 21-year-old's father noted.
Bitter with pain and anguish, Mrs. Armoutidou had said in her own testimony at the trial court that other persons should have been charged with the abuse and murder of her daughter, not just the two young men sitting in the dock.
As the mother of 21-year-old Eleni had pointed out, the grandmother of the accused Rhodite was aware of what was happening on the first floor of the house where the events took place, as she lived directly below. "I believe that the grandmother and the whole environment are in on the grandson's tricks. His grandmother says she allegedly saw my Helen happily being with the two hides, will you hear truths with this grandmother who was not ashamed and came? I believe that they listened and deaf knew the problematic behavior, and did not care, "had testified the mother of the slain student."
It is worth noting that during the previous court session, the port officer Thomas Zovas, who arrested the young Rhodite and his co-accused of Albanian origin, told the court that in the house where the 21-year-old girl was raped and abused was a "massacre."
It is worth noting that during the previous court session, the port officer Thomas Zovas, who arrested the young Rhodite and his co-accused of Albanian origin, told the court that in the house where the 21-year-old girl was raped and abused, there was "carnage. Finally, the coroner Panagiotis Kotretsos had testified that "there was no trace of humanity from the perpetrators" and stressed that the young girl bore signs of strangulation, had multiple injuries to her head, and that "the cause of her death was drowning."
Source: Proto Thema
Contents of this article including associated images are belongs Cyprus Times
Views & opinions expressed are those of the author and/or Cyprus Times
Source
