Vicky Soteriou should serve 16 years in jail according to the prosecution in the case of the attempted murder of Chris Soteriou. Prosecutor Andrew Tinney SC said she deserves the maximum jail term as she had plenty of time to decide not to go ahead with the crime of attempted murder against her husband. He said the crime was driven by selfish motives.
Defence counsel Phil Dunn QC said the crime stemmed from her “deeply passionate relationship” with her boyfriend Ari Dimitrakis, and the result of her crime is the strain it has placed on her relationship with her young twins and teenage daughter.
Chris Soteriou, the man whose wife plotted to murder him, has spoken out about the ordeal that has traumatized him and scarred him for life. In the trial against his wife Vicky Soteriou, Chris told the Supreme Court that he thought he had the perfect family before his wife plotted to murder him.
“This terrible tragedy has left my children and extended family and myself traumatised and scarred for life,” he said. “I struggle on a daily basis just to get through the day, not to mention the effect on my three-year-old twins. “How do I explain to my three-year-old twins that their mother tried to kill me?” Ari Dimitrakis, Vicky Soteriou’s lover, stabbed Chris while he was walking home after celebrating his 44th birthday.
Mr Soteriou was in tears in court as he read from his victim impact statement, saying the hardest part of the ultimate betrayal by his wife was her not taking any responsibility for her horrendous actions.
Vicky Soteriou was found guilty last month for conspiring with her boyfriend to have her husband murdered. She is in custody facing her sentencing on November 28.