President of the Union of Criminal Lawyers: I don't know if the evidence is enough to convict Roula Pispirigou

The 33-year-old is expected to file a request for release, Roula Pispirigou, charged in the case of Patras, always in accordance with the ERT.

Roula Pispirigou continues to deny the accusations that she killed 9-year-old Georgina, but the President of the Union of Criminal Lawyers, John Glykas, in Public Television the need to confess is an antiquated criminal method and is no longer followed.
«It is very important criminally that the way in which he allegedly tried to take the child's life has not been described in the indictment. This could be a defensive method on the part of the accused,» Mr. Glykas noted.

«I don't know if the evidence is enough for a conviction»

He expressed his concern that the investigator, who had the case for five months, did not seek criminal prosecution. «The file was closed and when it was to be recommended for referral to the Grand Jury, we had the case returned to the investigating magistrate for a speedy plea. This baffles me,» he said.

«What matters is what will be proven in court. There they will need evidence and no doubt. It will be a trial that will keep interest high. But as things stand, I don't know if the evidence is enough to convict» he added.

Leo: Everyone agrees on the criminal act

For his part, the president of the Hellenic Forensic Society Gregory Leon, speaking to ERT stressed that the only time we have different scientific approaches is when we have a forensic act that indicates something different from what the prosecutors have in their hands.

«The doctors who testified know everything and the prosecution based on these scientific opinions basically proceeded with the prosecution,» he stressed and added that in the first two children «we started differently but then with a documented conclusion we had another cause of death. On this cause nobody disagrees anymore and they agree on the criminal act and the suffocating death.».