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Mother, 33, smiles at her disabled daughter in last photo ‘before giving her a fatal dose of Ketamine’ as it emerges the deaths of her two OTHER girls were ‘criminal acts’
- Roula Pispirigou charged with killing her nine-year-old daughter with ketamine
- Mother, 33, under investigation over deaths of her two other girls in three years
- She has been jailed in high-security Korydallos prison in Athens until her trial
- It has sparked investigation for deaths of two other daughters in past three years
A 33-year-old mother in Greece was pictured smiling at her disabled daughter in the last photo taken of the pair before ‘giving her a fatal dose of Ketamine’.
Roula Pispirigou was charged with killing her nine-year-old daughter Georgina after a test of her muscle tissue revealed the presence of the anesthetic drug, which had not been administered by doctors.
Georgina – who suffered from seizures in April 2021 that left her tetraplegic – died in January after spending eight months in hospital and nurses later confirmed that Pispirigou was alone with her daughter in the moments leading up to her death.
Pispirigou, flanked by riot police and wearing handcuffs and a protective vest, appeared in court in Athens last week for her arraignment in front of a crowd of onlookers and journalists.
She was charged with killing her daughter and has been jailed in high-security Korydallos prison in Athens until her trial date, which is yet to be agreed. She has denied any wrongdoing.
Meanwhile, tissue samples retained from Pispirigou’s two other children are now being re-examined as part of a review into their deaths: Three-year-old Malena from liver failure in 2019 and six-month-old Iris in 2021 from a suspected heart defect.
Forensic Pathologist and President of the Forensics Union in Greece, Grigoris Leon, told local news station, Syndeseis, that the exhumation of her other children confirmed ‘criminal acts were the cause of death’.
Roula Pispirigou, 33, of Greece, was pictured smiling at her disabled daughter in the last photo taken of the pair before ‘giving her a fatal dose of Ketamine’
Pispirigou was charged with killing her nine-year-old daughter Georgina after a test of her muscle tissue revealed the presence of the anesthetic drug, which had not been administered by doctors
Georgina (right) – who suffered from seizures in April 2021 that left her tetraplegic – died in January after spending eight months in hospital and nurses later confirmed that Pispirigou (left) was alone with her daughter in the moments leading up to her death
Tissue samples retained from Pispirigou’s two other children are now being re-examined as part of a review into their deaths: Three-year-old Malena (left) from liver failure in 2019 and six-month-old Iris (right) in 2021 from a suspected heart defect
He said: ‘There is absolutely no doubt that it is a criminal act. ‘We had two initial reports (when the children died) that show the pathological cause of death. The first shows liver deficiency and the second heart malformation in the aorta as well as pulmonary embolism’, reports the Greek City Times.
‘As you can understand, pathological causes do not go along with findings pointing towards criminal acts which is why reevaluations are being made by my colleagues.
‘Essentially, here the old causes of death will have to be overturned and this is the only way we can be led to the truth and be able to find justice. Until the cause of death officially changes on the report we obviously can’t continue the conversation.’
A computer tablet that was buried with Georgina was retrieved on Saturday morning, following an order by the magistrate investigating the case because it could provide further evidence.
The 33-year-old was charged with killing her daughter and has been jailed in high-security Korydallos prison in Athens until her trial date, which is yet to be agreed. She has denied any wrongdoing
Pictured: Georgina, one of Roula Pispirigou’s children who died in suspicious circumstance
The tablet was buried with the schoolgirl as Pispirigou claimed ‘it was her favourite item’ but it has since been recovered after Georgina’s father, Manos Daskalakis, told magistrates he supports the case against his estranged wife.
Pispirigou’s mother, speaking to local outlet STAR, said she did not believe her daughter capable of killing the three children.
She described a close mother-daughter relationship and said Pispirigou was extremely upset about Georgina’s illness and death.
Court documents, local outlets reported, said that the autopsy had revealed Georgina died from a lethal dose of ketamine less than 20 minutes after it was administered.
The documents reportedly claimed medical staff had last visited the nine-year-old around an hour before she died.
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