The mother held in custody after being charged with the murder of her firstborn daughter, is applying for bail on Friday, according to her lawyer, Othon Papadopoulos.
The arrest of Roula Pispirigou, last week, was preceded by a detailed police investigation based on testimonies from nurses, staff and medical examiners at the hospital in the western city of Patra where her 9-year-old daughter, Georgina, died in late January.
According to the post-mortem toxicology results, the child had received ketamine, an anaesthetic drug often used in animal surgeries, which had not been prescribed by her treating doctors.
As stated in the case file, “the only person who was in Georgina’s room for the last 20 minutes of her life, before the side effects of the drug kicked in, was her mother”.
Ms Pispirigou is currently held in the high-security Korydallos prison in Athens until her trial.
“Tomorrow we will apply for her release,” Mr Papadopoulos said. “According to our claims, the scientific facts are going to change when we get some answers to our questions.”
The mother’s lawyer explained, that they have requested a written statement as to whether ketamine was available at the hospital, where the young girl died.
The estranged husband of the accused, Manos Daskalakis, testified about the circumstances surrounding the alleged murder of his daughter Georgina, for three hours on Thursday, and left the court of Evelpidon, without making further statements to reporters.
The accused had eight mobile phones, which are now being examined thoroughly by police, along with other electronic devices she had in her possession, after the the court decided to lift confidentiality and allow access to all her communications, in order to understand how she may have obtained ketamine, and whether others may have been involved.
Investigations continue into the suspicious deaths of her other two daughters, Iris and Malena, who died within months of each other in 2019.
