The original sentences remained
And in the second degree, the 32-year-old perpetrator of the murder of the American woman was unanimously found guilty, according to the indictment biologist Susan Eaton, in Kolymbari Chaniain July 2019.
The charges against him were manslaughter by intent in a calm state of mind with possible intent, natural and unnatural rape. The Mixed Jury Court of Chania also imposed in the second degree on the 32-year-old the sentences that had been imposed at first instance: life for the murder and 13 years for the rape and three months for the possession of the weapon, reported the ERT.
“Now begins the recovery of this great wound for the family of Susan Eaton, and above all, society has been saved once and for all from a potential serial killer,” said immediately after the announcement of the court decision, the advocate of the victim’s family, Pantelis Zelios .
For her part, the other advocate of the family, Vaso Pantazis, conveyed the thanks of the children and her husband Susan Eaton to all the Cretans and every person who, as she said, helped to find her body and to open the judicial process for the “her peace where she is.” He also conveyed the family’s undivided trust in the Greek justice system and in ELAS.
Referring to the defendant’s attitude, she said that he was not only unrepentant but also defiant, invoking, as he noted, the report of the president and the prosecutor of the seat that “there was no moral conversion of this man”.
Regarding the court decision, he stated that it “makes him one of those people who will be in prison for a long time until he realizes the extent of the devastation and tragedy he has caused to two young children who are deprived of their mother and to a husband who lost the love of his life one tragic afternoon in Crete”.
