Hadjicostis murder ‘a crime by amateurs’

THE DEFENCE in the ongoing trial for the murder of Sigma owner Andis Hadjicostis yesterday tried to poke holes in the story of key prosecution witness Fanos Hadjigeorgiou.

Hadjigeorgiou allegedly drove the getaway motorcycle on the night of the murder and has been given immunity in return for his testimony against the other four suspects.

According to Marios Georgiou, the lawyer for one of the alleged masterminds, Tasos Krasopoulis said the shooting of the Sigma boss was the “perfect amateur crime conjured up at coffeeshops, on the go, and in the hallways of Hippocration. Clinic”.

Georgiou was referring to the apparently confused communication between Hadjigeorgiou, the alleged shooter Gregoris Xenofontos and alleged fixer Andreas Gregoriou.

Gregoriou was in hospital on the night of the murder after a bomb went off in his car in late December 2009. Dozens of questions were fired at Hadjigeorgiou yesterday about the alleged events leading up to the murder as well as on the night itself.

Hadjigeorgiou talked about how he and Xenofontos had planned to go to his apartment after the murder where they would load the getaway motorcycle in Xenofontos’ van to take to the home of hospitalised Gregoriou in Tseri.

The cross-examination yesterday was interrupted after the witness complained of eye problems and asked to see a doctor.

TV presenter Elena Skordelli and her brother Krasopoulis, with alleged fixer Gregoriou and alleged shooter Xenonofontos are on trial for the murder of Hadjicostis who was gunned down outside his home on January 11 last year.

Cross-examination of Hadjigeorgiou resumes today.

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