Total imprisonment 11 years and 10 months imposed the Court of Appeal on a 41-year-old man, who was convicted of the rape of three extradited women, pretending to be a police officer.

The acts, according to the indictment, were committed in March 2021, in Thessaloniki, just a few days after his release from prison for a murder he had committed, 11 years earlier, together with his fiancee, against a 58-year-old psychiatrist, former partner of the co-accused of.

Apologizing for the rape case, the 41-year-old man denied the charges claiming that everything was done with the women’s consent. He also attributed the complaints to a “hoax” set up against him by his former inmates in Trikala prisons in order to take revenge on him because he refused to import drugs into the particular penitentiary.

Examining the case in the second degree, the Mixed Jury Court of Appeal of Thessaloniki recognized the mitigating factor of subsequent good behavior, while converting the act of robbery attributed to him into theft (removed items from the victims). At first instance he was sentenced to 20 years in prison,

He was released from prison in February 2021, having served a 15-year sentence for the murder of the psychiatrist in Thessaloniki. The 58-year-old victim had been found mortally wounded (in December 2010), outside his parked vehicle, with repeated stab wounds to various parts of the body.

Together with his fiancee at the time, originally from Cuba, they had been sentenced by the Court of Appeal to life imprisonment, but after an appeal to the Supreme Court, the sentence was overturned, on the grounds that they should be recognized with the mitigating sentence of life in common law, which they subsequently received as a result of “breaking” the life sentences.