The guilt of the 39-year-old accused of murdering the 25-year-old domestic helper from Sri Lanka, whose body was found, in February 2013, floating in the pool of the luxury home where he worked, in the area of ​​Elaion, Thessaloniki, was suggested to his judges The Prosecutor of the Five-member Military Court of Thessaloniki.

Evaluating all the evidence and deconstructing the defense arguments of the defendant – a soldier at the time – the military court prosecutor concluded that the 39-year-old (today) strangled the victim and threw him into the pool in an attempt to make it appear that he had drowned. “He set up a false alibi”, he said – among other things – about the alleged perpetrator, while as for his motive he said that this was not the murder in advance, but the sexual intercourse with the victim and the murder was probably the product of the 25-year-old’s denial to yield to his appetites.

In his sentence, the prosecutor found “glaring omissions” in the police investigation, focusing on the fact that the entire body of the accused’s mobile phone was not seized, only old files of the device were extracted. In addition, regarding the victim’s clothes, he pointed out that “they collected them, made a tangle and put them in a black bag”, an omission which, according to the prosecutor’s proposal, ultimately led to the impossibility of using them for the possible finding of biological material .

Regarding the defendant’s claim that at the time in question he was in an internet cafe, playing poker, the prosecutor, evaluating the material provided by the company’s cameras, stated that “it is not possible to draw a safe laboratory conclusion as to whether the defendant was in specific store’ at the time in question.

Commenting on what the 39-year-old mentioned in his confession that the victim was murdered by another person and that he was possibly “involved somewhere”, the prosecutor ruled out such a possibility. “It was a short time in Thessaloniki. He had left the house three times… It is questionable how a third person could have entered the house which was well guarded without leaving any traces of tampering,” he stressed during his hour-long sermon.

He did not rule out the involvement of an accomplice, but, as he said, such a thing did not emerge from the investigation, while he referred to the defendant’s behavior when he returned to the camp, where – according to testimonies – he was speechless, restless and aloof.

The trial was adjourned and will resume next week with the purchase of civil and defense attorneys.