The Court of Appeals found the murderer of Garyfallia Psarakou guilty for one more time and sentenced him to the maximum penalty, a life behind bars, without the recognition of mitigating factors.
Garyfallia was pushed to death on a rocky beach on the island of Folegandros in July 2021, after she told her boy friend that she wanted them to split after a 6-month relationship.
The then 30-year-old perpetrator ran away and the crime was discovered when the body of the then 26-year-old victim was spotted floating in the sea, near the beach of Lygaria on the northern side of the island.
The Court of Appeals found the defendant guilty of the crime of intentional homicide in a calm mental state and sentenced him to the maximum penalty, without the recognition of mitigating factors.
The decision was announced at noon on Thursday and the court agreed with the proposal that the prosecutor had submitted earlier.
Thus, as had happened in the first-instance trial, the Court of Appeal ruled that the perpetrator took Garyfallia’s life while she was in a calm mental state and not in a state of mental agitation as his defense attempted to prove in order to achieve a reduced charge and reduction of the first-instance sentence.
Furthermore, the prosecutor rejected his lawyers’ request to recognize the mitigating circumstance of his previous lawful life and good conduct after the act and during the time of detention.
Therefore, the sentence of the first-instance decision was not reduced for the perpetrator, who had been sentenced to life imprisonment for intentional homicide and is expected to return to prison.
Today, December 12, Garyfallia would celebrate her 30th birthday.
