The trial before the Mixed Jury Court of Appeals of the two accused for the rape and the brutal murder of the student Eleni Topaloudi in November 2018 in Rhodes is expected to proceed today, except unexpectedly.
The second instance trial for the disgusting, martyr’s death began on February 14 and after the jury draw, it was adjourned for today as the youngest of the two defendants had appointed a new lawyer to represent him who asked for time to study the case file.
The trial is expected to enter the hearing today and the court will open the list of witnesses with the first parents of Eleni, Ioannis Topaloudis and Koula Armoutidou. People who were notified that on the afternoon of November 28, 2018 their daughter was found horribly beaten on a beach of the island where she was studying, will go to the witness stand to defend the memory of their child but also to ask for no mercy. people on trial for the heinous death of their Helen.
Only the 24-year-old defendant, of Greek origin, was present at the previous, first hearing, as his 22-year-old co-accused, of Albanian origin, stated that he did not want to be taken to court.
The two defendants have been sentenced in the first instance to life imprisonment and an additional sentence of 15 years in prison. According to the case file, Eleni’s almost peers raped her with the threat of a knife and hit her hard on the head with punches and an electric iron, and then threw her on a rocky beach in the Lindos area of ​​Rhodes while she was alive. she begged just before they took her to the hospital.
The court of first instance had not recognized any mitigation in the two perpetrators of the case that caused horror in a large part of the society for the savagery shown by two such young men.
The parents of Eleni Topaloudi ask the same from the Court of Appeals: Not to recognize any mitigation, not to change the sentence imposed for the brutal loss of their daughter.
The judges, after examining the approximately ten witnesses and evaluating the positions of the accused and all the material of the case file, will finally decide whether the two young men will return to prison with the same or reduced sentence.
The position of the accused, both during the pre-trial and in the first instance court, is that they had sex with the consent of Eleni Topaloudi and that the situation was diverted when the student praised the erotic performance of one resulting in the instantaneous explosion of the other.
This version was rejected by the judges of the Council of Criminal Procedure of Rhodes who referred them as well as the seven members of the First Instance Criminal Court who ruled that both participated equally in the rape and murder of the 21-year-old and in all subsequent actions they took to cover their traces. “They were in absolute collusion and sympathy with each other, especially during the rape and the killing of the victim,” the Judicial Council’s panel typically states.
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