The judicial authorities issued an arrest warrant against lawyer Apostolos Lytras after he violated the restraining conditions imposed on him when he plead for the savage beating of his wife Sophia Polyzogopoulou.
Following this development, the criminal lawyer will be taken to prison upon his arrest.
Mr. Lytras, who is wanted by the police authorities, claimed in his plea to the interrogator that he managed to hit his wife 2-3 times, without intending to cause her any harm.
Through the case file that has been formed for the case, new data are coming to light about the circumstances under which the savage beating of the lawyer by the accused criminal lawyer took place, but also about the visit that the 37-year-old woman received at his house in Gerakas by the ex-wife of Apostolos Lytras and two other persons.
According to Mrs. Polyzogopoulou, she fainted from the shock she suffered from the unwanted visit – a fact confirmed by the police officer who was at her home for her safety. Furthermore, the lawyer states in her complaint that she received text messages from Apostolos Lytras, who wrote to her that his children were trying to talk to her “and come to the house to get money”. In fact, she claims that both the defendant’s ex-wife and his lawyer partner who visited her at her home in Gerakas “were acting as his instruments”.
Lytra’s statement
Sensational is the fact that Apostolos Lytras claimed in his plea to the interrogator, that he hit his wife only twice. As in public, before the interrogator, the accused said for his action that the statement about his wife falling down the stairs was her idea for the sake of their children, even though – as he said – he had taken responsibility for his actions from the very first moment. Furthermore, he testified that in September last year he and his wife were separated, but for some months they continued to be together.
“She was sending a message somewhere, I got jealous”
Describing what happened last Sunday morning and the brutal attack on his wife, he said the following in his apology: “On Saturday night we went to a restaurant in Vouliagmeni with a group of friends. All the way we were fine and we were discussing family matters. At the restaurant as I got up to go towards her I saw that she was texting someone. I took her cell phone and asked her to give me the code to find out to who she was sending these messages because I was jealous. She refused and I asked her to leave. When we got into the car we started arguing and while I was driving I hit her with my right hand, obviously in the face without knowing the spot and without the slightest intention of causing her any harm.”
Continuing, the defendant told the interrogator, “A few metres down the road there was an opening where I stopped to have a conversation. Another car came behind and so I continued to drive while the verbal altercation continued. I struck her with my right hand from the driver’s seat, with no intention of causing her any harm. And she knows that I had no such intention. We drove home and both of us said we should go to the hospital as a precaution.”
At this point, it should be noted that the doctor who examined Sophia Polyzogopoulou diagnosed, among other things, in the 37-year-old woman “ecchymosis and swelling of the face – forehead, cheekbones, amphorae – ecchymosis of the eye sockets (racoon eyes), fracture of the right lobe, ear, swelling and bleeding of the nose, abrasions and swelling of the upper and lower lip”. In addition, he testified, the woman had “blood on her scalp, as well as tufts of hair on her clothing and body.” In fact, this testimony of the doctor with the “findings” on the victim’s head is confirmed by the coroner.
“On my own initiative”
Describing then in what happened at the couple’s home, the accused told the interrogator the following: ‘Because we were both very tense we went to our house first, where we stayed for 10 minutes, she took a shower and I took her on my own initiative to the Euroclinic. When we left the house, she told me ‘I am not going to say anything about what happened’ and I told her I would take responsibility. When we got to the Euroclinic, my wife in the room where she was and I was with her, told me to say that she fell down the stairs. In fact, my wife testified first and I testified about two and a half hours later. During that time she told me on the phone that she testified that she fell down the stairs and that I was not present. I want to point out that the blow to my wife’s face was actually caused by the stretching of my right arm instinctively and impulsively, because we were about 40 centimetres apart. I estimate that the blows with my right hand were two or three. I point out to you that when she gave her statement, I was already in the police station as a prisoner and the police officers then went to take her statement. Therefore, there was no reason for her to be afraid of anything. In fact, on the phone she mentioned to me that the police officers asked her if she wanted a panic button and she just shook her head and it was assumed by the officers that she wanted the panic button. Throughout my detention, I have been in constant communication with my wife both by phone and text.”
During his apology, Apostle Lytras claimed that he was informed of his wife’s change of statement by her on Sunday, June 16 at 5pm. “She gave me two reasons. First, that on the internet they write everywhere that ‘she is covering for me’ and second, she mentioned to me that she is doing it for our three daughters,” the accused claimed before the interrogator.
