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The jury in the trial of the man accused of murdering a restaurant manager in Glasgow has been told her death was "brutal and savage". | |
The claim came in prosecutor Brian McConnachie QC's closing speech at the trial of Juan Carlos Suarez Crispin. | |
He denies murdering Eleni Pachou, 25, at Di Maggio's pizzeria last May. | |
Defence QC, Ian Duguid, said cleaner Marion Hinshelwood, who earlier pleaded guilty to culpable homicide, had literally "got away with murder". | |
In his closing speech Mr McConnachie told the jury at the High Court in Glasgow that Ms Pachou came to Scotland from Greece following the death of her mother. | In his closing speech Mr McConnachie told the jury at the High Court in Glasgow that Ms Pachou came to Scotland from Greece following the death of her mother. |
He said: "What happened to Eleni would be condemned by every right-thinking man or woman." | He said: "What happened to Eleni would be condemned by every right-thinking man or woman." |
The QC said the jury had seen photographs and heard evidence about her injuries and he added: "The person who did that to her was incredibly callous; a person thinking only of themselves, and who was immune to the ferocity of the attack which they were carrying out. | The QC said the jury had seen photographs and heard evidence about her injuries and he added: "The person who did that to her was incredibly callous; a person thinking only of themselves, and who was immune to the ferocity of the attack which they were carrying out. |
"Someone so caught up in what they were doing, they were unaware perhaps of the injury they themselves sustained: the injury which would ultimately be their undoing." | "Someone so caught up in what they were doing, they were unaware perhaps of the injury they themselves sustained: the injury which would ultimately be their undoing." |
Juror ill | |
However, in his summing up Mr Duguid QC asked the jury to question all the evidence given by restaurant cleaner Marion Hinshelwood. | |
She appeared as a witness for the Crown after pleading guilty to culpable homicide. | |
The defence QC said she had derived huge benefits from doing so. | |
Ms Pachou was a trainee manager at the restaurant | |
Mr Crispin has blamed Hinshelwood for Ms Pachou's death. | |
He denies, while acting along with Hinshelwood, repeatedly striking Ms Pachou on the head and body with a knife or similar instrument, opening a safe and robbing her of £1,320.25, attempting to open another safe and murdering her. | |
One of the jurors has been taken to hospital with chest pains, meaning the case will now be decided by a jury of 14 - eight women and six men. | One of the jurors has been taken to hospital with chest pains, meaning the case will now be decided by a jury of 14 - eight women and six men. |