- The British waitress was attacked in a remote location near Aiya Napa
- The rapist gave her cannabis and nitrous oxide before the sick attack
- His eight-year prison sentence was upheld by a Greek appeals court
A Greek appeals court has upheld an eight-year prison sentence for a 36-year-old man who raped a 20-year-old British waitress after taking her to a remote spot near Ayia Napa and giving her nitrous oxide before killing her. attacked in 2019. .
A criminal judge ruled that he raped the waitress, who had only arrived in Greece a month earlier, after driving her to a secluded spot and giving her cannabis and nitrous oxide.
The now 24-year-old waitress, whose identity is not known, knew the then 32-year-old rapist as someone who worked in the nearby area.
She got into his car after he approached her on June 26, 2019, about consuming nitrous oxide, and “trusted him and felt safe, while never having any intention, desire or expectation to have sex with him.”
As they drove, the rapist pulled out some cannabis and she realized he was driving to an unknown location.
She was attacked in a remote spot near Aiya Napa (File Image)
She texted her location to her friend when they stopped in an area in Sotira, near Ayia Napa, because she was “very scared because it was dark and remote.”
After they snorted nitrous oxide and smoked weed together, she asked to be taken back to her flat, but when she tried to leave, “the rapist grabbed her and threw her while she was crying.”
She told the court she was terrified and didn't know what would happen to her if she fought back.
After the sick attack, she was taken back to her apartment, where her roommate found her “very upset, crying and disheveled, and she didn't say anything for a long time.”
He was sentenced to eight years in prison, but appealed his sentence.
The attacker, identified in local media only as IK, claimed he was not given a fair trial because he was given a poor translator.
But the Court of Appeal ruled that this issue had been resolved at his first trial and that he was an unreliable witness, saying his testimony “contained many contradictions, indeterminacies, evasions and lies.”
He also claimed that she had indeed consented, which the judges rejected, saying: At no stage of the trial did (the waitress) accept the perpetrator's position that her body language was inviting him to follow her, nor did she accept that . every phase of the testimony that while she was in his car, she had her legs open or that she was fondling IK's leg or that she was using her tongue sexually.'