Questions have been raised concerning the effectiveness of the police in the disappearance of little Fivos, aged 4, snatched by his wife-killing father James Claude Lesi. A huge manhunt with checkpoints created around the region was fruitless though the 35-year-old murderer was hiding out just one kilometer away from the scene of the crime.

The Albanian killer was essentially under the nose of the Greek police who purportedly combed the area, accompanied by TV crews. Eventually he was arrested after passers-by found him.

“Unfortunately, we live in a state where an Albanian wife-killer lived near the house where he killed his wife and the Greek police was unable to do anything. How difficult could it have been to have used a helicopter to find him?” asks Nikos Deliangelos, a friend of the Mavrommatis family who is mourning the death of Lesi’s 41-year-old wife.

Volunteers who caught the murderer themselves surrendered him to the police.