Myrto's assailant convicted: life + 25 years
- Written by E.Tsiliopoulos
Ahmet Vakash, the Pakistani national that crippled Myrto, in an attempt to rob and rape her, was sentenced to life in prison plus 25 years for robbery, attempted murder, attempted rape, and working illegally.
The court, on Syros, espoused the proposal set forth for the punishment of the convict in passing sentence. The prosecutor in his closing statement blasted the defendant saying: “He exhausted all bestiality, and there was design at the same time. He wanted to steal her mobile and rape her. I do not consider him guilty because he's from Pakistan, or because he's foreign... He's guilty for his bestiality he caused and this is due to the person himself, his soul, his character. Let me wish courage to Myrto's family.”
The testimony of Myrto's mother, Mary Kotrotsos shocked the audience as she described how she had seen the assailant eying her daughter and had refused to allow Myrto to take a walk alone. However, Myrto did go off on the agreement that when she got a call she would leave. When Ms Kotrotsos called her daughter there was no response, so she and her eldest daughter went searching for the girl they found smashed in some rocks along the beach.
Ms Kotrotsos and her daughter at first didn't recognize that the blood-covered broken rag-doll stuffed among the rocks was her daughter, and when she did she thought she was either dead, or on death's doorstep.
The tragic mother recounted how when she visited the spot, on Paros, where the crime had taken place, much later, the site was still blood -drenched, despite being washed by the tides.
