Pafos Live 8 May 2023
The forensic pathologist Dr. Andreas Marnerides appeared today at the Pafos Assize Court, where the trial of the murder case of the 74-year-old British woman against her husband continues. Mr Marneridis adopted his report by the Court.
In the conclusions of his report, Dr. Dr. Marneridis said that findings from lung examination are consistent with acute/end-type cardiopulmonary flexion, while findings consistent with leukaemia history are observed in incisions from the lung and incision from the spleen.
Given what was communicated to him, Dr. Marneridis told the Court regarding the circumstances of the death and macroscopic post-mortem findings, and given the findings of the pathological-eastern examination of the samples he was asked to examine, the death of Janice Lesley Hunter It can in his opinion reasonably be attributed to acute/terminal cardiopulmonary flexion, as a result of asphyxiation following obstruction of her upper respiratory tract by another person.
Also asked about this by the defence lawyer of the 74-year-old, Dr. Marneridis replied that in order to be able to tell if MDS (myelodysplastic syndrome) had been diverted into acute myeloblastic leukaemia, he should have examined a piece of the victim's bone marrow, which, however, he stressed he could not do, since he explained that no relevant sample was sent to him for examination and on the other hand objective findings from the haematologist who examined the victim are needed,.
But on a general level, he continued, because a large percentage of this aberration is observed in the MDS patient, he cannot rule out that this diversion existed. Asked by the Representative of the Public Prosecutor's Office, Lawyer of the Republic, Andreas Hadjikyrou, whether his findings are compatible with MDS, Dr. Marneridis replied that it is. Dr. Marneridis also clarified that his references in his leukaemia report are based on what he had recorded as a history the forensic pathologist Nicholas Charalambous. The latter in his testimony stated that the information had been obtained from the police, on the basis of what the accused had reported. Indicatively, he noted that there was no objective finding confirming leukaemia. Constable Chrysanthi Andreou also testified at today's hearing, referring, among other things, to the communication they had with Interpol in the United Kingdom and the information allegedly given by the 74-year-old's brother that the defendant "killed his wife and took pills to commit suicide".
