The Joint Jury Court of Edessa imposed life sentences and an additional 15-year suspended sentence on each of the two defendants for the murder of the 41-year-old pregnant woman, whose body was found last January in a trunk, in an inaccessible area near Monopigado, on the borders of prefectures of Thessaloniki and Halkidiki.

The trial began on Tuesday and – accepting the prosecutor’s proposal – the Court, with a unanimous decision, yesterday found both the 39-year-old partner of the victim and his 34-year-old friend guilty of all the acts attributed to them.

More specifically, they were found guilty of manslaughter, termination of pregnancy, robbery, illegal carrying of weapons and use of weapons (the first three in the degree of a felony), without any mitigating circumstances being recognized, while after the verdict of the judges (regular and lay) the two men returned to prisons.

In their apologies, the two convicts denied their criminal responsibility, pointing to each other as the victim’s killer. “I took my medicine and slept […] When I woke up the next day, Georgia was gone,” said the 39-year-old partner of the murdered woman (mother of one minor child), while his co-accused friend said he agreed to participate in a “staged” robbery because he needed the money, but didn’t he wanted to cause harm to the woman.

According to the forensic findings, the patient (she was in the 7th week of pregnancy), had three fatal knife wounds in the cervical region and the neck.

The murder was committed on New Year’s Day 2024 in the 39-year-old’s apartment in Kalamaria, while her body was found a week later in a suitcase (trunk), following a tip from the 34-year-old. Security cameras recorded them carrying the trunk and throwing various items into trash cans after the crime, including a mattress, on which traces of the unfortunate woman’s blood were found.