On the coronary heart of the loss of life investigation have been the statements of the 2 pathologists and the legal investigator, which lasted for a lot of hours and introduced plenty of stress between the Authorized Service and the household's legal professionals
As we speak at midday, the Limassol District Court docket is anticipated to announce the choice on the third loss of life investigation into the causes of loss of life of Thanasis Nikolaou, who was discovered useless on September 29, 2005 underneath the Alassa bridge.
Firstly of the third loss of life trial, final October, the 2 sides had determined to proceed the method from the place it had stopped, that’s, on the premise of the brand new information created after the exhumation and examination of the bones of Thanasis Nikolaou, in 2020, and which result in the conclusion that his loss of life was resulting from a legal act and to not suicide, because the coroner Panikos Stavrianos had dominated on the time.
Regardless of the decide's intention for a speedy course of, which might be accomplished earlier than the tip of 2023, this was not potential, as new requests and objections continually arose between the Authorized Service and the household's legal professionals.
It’s recalled that the court docket rejected the request of the health worker Stavrianou to attend the proceedings as an celebration, whereas subsequently he was additionally excluded as a witness, following an objection by the household's legal professionals, to the request of the Authorized Service to submit a brand new forensic report.
The coroner had additionally rejected a request by the Authorized Service for pathologist Dr. Andreas Marneridis and, on behalf of the household's legal professionals, health worker Elpida Spanoudaki to testify, indicating that that they had no involvement in the entire case.
In entrance of the coroner, the recorder of the Civil Division of the court docket, the Recorder of the Prison Division, the Director of the Laboratory of Forensic Genetics on the Institute of Neurology and Genetics Dr. Marios Kariolou, the investigator of the case from the Police aspect, the chief constable who transported the bone slabs testified of Thanasis Nikolaos in Greece, the anthropologist Eleftheria Charilaou, the pathologists Emmanuel Agapitos and Dimitra Karagianni, in addition to the legal investigator Savvas Matsas.
On the coronary heart of the loss of life investigation have been the statements of the 2 pathologists and the legal investigator, which lasted for a lot of hours and introduced a number of tensions between the Authorized Service and the household's legal professionals.
Professor Agapitos, who was summoned by the Authorized Service, didn’t rule out any risk for the causes of loss of life of Thanasis Nikolaos, in distinction to pathologist Karagiannis, who expressed certainty that the 26-year-old nationwide guard was strangled. Prison investigator Savvas Matsas, who had undertaken, with different legal investigators, the investigation of the case, following directions from the Legal professional Normal, acknowledged that he was sure that this was a legal act.
