Nearly two weeks after the announcement of the choice of the coroner's conclusion, Mrs. Andriana Nikolaou speaks on the present “24 Hours” about what she skilled within the final 19 years of the struggle she gave to show the true explanation for loss of life of her little one who was discovered lifeless on September 2005 in Limassol.
Though the loss of life case of Thanasis Nikolaou has not been closed, his mom now feels calmer that she managed to partially vindicate her little one by eradicating the stigma of suicide. “My soul calmed down as a result of I succeeded after an extended wrestle and I fought with many incomprehensible folks to make clear my son's title.”
She even proceeds to disclose that her little one's killers reduce an artery in his leg to cowl their tracks. “They’d wounded his leg under the ankle. They instructed me that they reduce his artery, let him bleed as a result of they didn't need him to bruise as a result of they choked him.”
“It was to trick us”
Amongst different issues, Mrs. Andrianna spoke concerning the angle of each the Authorized Service and the Police investigation.
So far as the Authorized Service was involved he felt like he stated he needed them to kill time whereas he by no means appeared to just accept the potential of homicide.
In some authorized proceedings, as he stated, “the consultant of the Authorized Service instructed me to go for a prison investigation to determine the culprits” however, as he added, “their objective was to not make it clear who was guilty and it was homicide. In any case, it was to trick us. They held us again three years.”
Concerning the Police investigation after the conclusion of the prison investigator Savva Matsa, he stated “it's all lies, distortions, gossip with the purpose of falsifying the true information. To disorient the court docket or the journalists who have been within the room listening to them.”
“I higher not keep in mind them… I wish to overlook them”
What occurred and what he heard throughout these years he now needs to go away behind.
“I'd higher not keep in mind them. I used to rise up from my chair within the courtroom and shout 'Mr. Mercy'. They handled us with hostility and as if we have been the murderers of my little one. I can't keep in mind them. I wish to overlook them, actually.”
“The information then spoke for themselves”
She herself didn’t consider for a second that her little one dedicated suicide as, as she stated for the umpteenth time, the information spoke for themselves.
“The findings, the place that was discovered, with an intact physique and behind the vertical of the bridge so many meters. The sand within the mouth with out water within the river spoke for itself that someplace he was immersed within the water. The particular person concerned who gave a press release in 2016 to the TAE of Nicosia stated that the river was lowered. If that was the case, why didn't he take the pockets, his glasses have been subsequent to him on the opposite facet.”
Why ought to I lose my religion? I got here nearer to God
The homicide of her little one and the lengthy wrestle she fought for his justice introduced her, as she says, nearer to God.
“After a number of days, my husband and I might go each day and burn incense there, pray and say, 'God, I wish to know the way my little one bought right here.'”
In a remark that some are questioning how she hasn't misplaced her religion she stated “Why ought to I lose her? I got here nearer to God. I don't miss the church” including that there he feels he’s nearer to my little one.
“19 years is a giant a part of my life and the very best I can let you know,” she stated, saying that she was prepared to dedicate her life to discovering out what occurred to her little one.
