The 28-year-old was temporarily detained where is accused of keeping locked in the house and abusing his 22-year-old wife, together with their three-year-old child, in Alykes of Volos.

The 28-year-old was brought before the Investigator today and it was decided to hold him temporarily until the trial of the case at the Criminal Court of Larissain about two months.

The accused, who is also referred for attempted murder, is taken to the prisons of Larissa and indictment now also includes attempted murder. The defendant’s lawyer stated that they were a loving couple and the defendant admitted that he only hit his wife last Thursday and no other time. He stated that they argued because she insisted that they leave for Great Britain, while here they had built their lives. He denied that he had locked her in the house and said that he had normal keys and a mobile phone.

The 22-year-old however, it is already mentioned in the statement she gave through the General Hospital of Volos, before she was transferred to a social structure together with her minor daughter, to confirmed what her neighbor-savior revealed about what she was experiencing.

According to reports, the victim described the regime of terror in which he livedmentioning that although the doors of the house were not locked, she did not go out and did not go to the police to report her husband, because of the significant threats she received from him and the fear he had cultivated in her for at least two years.

Psychologists from the first moment are next to the mother and her 3-year-old daughterin front of whose eyes everything happened last Thursday, the 21st of the month.

According to the case file, the 28-year-old Albanian assaulted his wife “and caused her physical injuries by hitting her on the face and body with his fists and grabbing her by the neck. When the neighbor realized the incident in question ran to help, the perpetrator threatened her and also caused physical injuries to her face by hitting her with his hand.”

Elsewhere it states: “…the last period of the two years they lived together in Voloshe did not allow her to leave the house, except for a few times when this was done together, while within the upper interval, there was a continuous period of time of five months where he forced her with the use of physical violence and threats to be permanently confined to the house”.