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Pizza murder 'brutal and savage' Pizza murder 'brutal and savage'
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The jury in the trial of the man accused of murdering a restaurant manager in Glasgow has been told her death was "brutal and savage." The jury in the trial of the man accused of murdering a restaurant manager in Glasgow has been told her death was "brutal and savage".
Prosecutor, Brian McConnachie QC, was addressing the jury at the conclusion of evidence in the trial of Juan Carlos Suarez Crispin. The claim came in prosecutor Brian McConnachie QC's closing speech at the trial of Juan Carlos Suarez Crispin.
He denies murdering Eleni Pachou, 25, at Di Maggio's pizzeria in Ruthven Lane in May last year. He denies murdering Eleni Pachou, 25, at Di Maggio's pizzeria last May.
Mr McConnachie also said the person responsible was "incredibly callous". Defence QC, Ian Duguid, said cleaner Marion Hinshelwood, who earlier pleaded guilty to culpable homicide, had literally "got away with murder".
In his closing speech Mr McConnachie told the jury at the High Court in Glasgow that Ms Pachou came to Scotland from Greece following the death of her mother.In his closing speech Mr McConnachie told the jury at the High Court in Glasgow that Ms Pachou came to Scotland from Greece following the death of her mother.
He said: "What happened to Eleni would be condemned by every right-thinking man or woman."He said: "What happened to Eleni would be condemned by every right-thinking man or woman."
The QC said the jury had seen photographs and heard evidence about her injuries and he added: "The person who did that to her was incredibly callous; a person thinking only of themselves, and who was immune to the ferocity of the attack which they were carrying out.The QC said the jury had seen photographs and heard evidence about her injuries and he added: "The person who did that to her was incredibly callous; a person thinking only of themselves, and who was immune to the ferocity of the attack which they were carrying out.
Juror ill
"Someone so caught up in what they were doing, they were unaware perhaps of the injury they themselves sustained: the injury which would ultimately be their undoing.""Someone so caught up in what they were doing, they were unaware perhaps of the injury they themselves sustained: the injury which would ultimately be their undoing."
Juror ill
However, in his summing up Mr Duguid QC asked the jury to question all the evidence given by restaurant cleaner Marion Hinshelwood.
She appeared as a witness for the Crown after pleading guilty to culpable homicide.
The defence QC said she had derived huge benefits from doing so.
Ms Pachou was a trainee manager at the restaurant
Mr Crispin has blamed Hinshelwood for Ms Pachou's death.
He denies, while acting along with Hinshelwood, repeatedly striking Ms Pachou on the head and body with a knife or similar instrument, opening a safe and robbing her of £1,320.25, attempting to open another safe and murdering her.
One of the jurors has been taken to hospital with chest pains, meaning the case will now be decided by a jury of 14 - eight women and six men.One of the jurors has been taken to hospital with chest pains, meaning the case will now be decided by a jury of 14 - eight women and six men.
Mr Crispin has blamed restaurant cleaner Marion Hinshelwood for Ms Pachou's death. She has already admitted culpable homicide and gave evidence as a prosecution witness.
Mr Crispin denies, while acting along with Hinshelwood, repeatedly striking Ms Pachou on the head and body with a knife or similar instrument, opening a safe and robbing her of £1,320.25, attempting to open another safe and murdering her.