Life sentence the Joint Jury imposed to the 23-year-olda national of Pakistan, who was unanimously found guilty without mitigation of her murder his 17-year-old girlfriendin August 2022 in Peristeri.

The defendant had confessed to his crime after his arrest, as he did today, apologizing in court, claiming that during a fight they had, on the occasion of his decision to flee to Italy, he became enraged when the victim insulted his religion, with the result that he, unintentionally, to strangle her.

At the beginning of the trial, during the transfer of the accused and later during an interruption, the father and sister of the victim tried to lynch the 23-year-old.

In his statement, the accused said that he had a relationship with the victim for 1.5 years and that they lived with her sister and mother in Peristeri. As he mentioned, they had a heated argument when he told her he wanted to leave for Italy while she asked him to stay and be baptized a Christian. The tension peaked, according to the defendant, when the 17-year-old started throwing his clothes and cursing Mohammed.

“I pushed her off the bed, I say ‘sit there’. He kept cursing me and Muhammad and at that time I got angry. I grabbed her by the neck and started telling her “who is telling you such things while I’m listening to you?”. I grabbed her at that time by the head and told her to apologize. She grabbed my hand and told me to let her go. I didn’t let her go and kept telling her to apologize. After some seconds I saw that her eyes were closed. Then I gave her water, gave her air. I was on my nerves and left the house.”

President: At that time, why didn’t you inform EKAB to send an ambulance?

Defendant: That was the biggest mistake.

President: What actions did you take next?

Defendant: I took my things and left the house. I went to my brother to get some money and went to Larissa Station to catch the train to Thessaloniki.

President: When did you find out that the girl was dead?

Accused: The other day, by my father. I found out from the internet that she is dead and called her. I told him that a mistake was made by me, I asked what happened, I told him about the girl. He got mad, hung up on me. Then I found a compatriot who does work for immigrants and I told him I want to leave and he helped me.

I wanted to apologize to you and my friend’s family. I know sorry can’t do anything, but that’s all I can do.

In her testimony earlier, the 17-year-old’s sister said she believed the crime was committed out of the defendant’s jealousy because two of the girls’ friends had gone to their house on the day in question, which the 23-year-old did not want. “A week before, my mother had spoken to my sister and told her, ‘Mom, wait a week and I will divorce him,'” the witness testified.

The girl’s father testified that the crime was “wanted and done” by the defendant and was not an accident. “I want him to have no fate in the sun, never to see the sun. Life sentences should be for life” he said charged, mentioning that he himself had objections to his daughter’s relationship.