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A West Midlands man has been convicted of killing his girlfriend on the Greek island of Crete three years ago. A British man has been convicted of killing his girlfriend on the Greek island of Crete three years ago.
Luke Walker, 25, was found guilty of inflicting grievous bodily harm leading to the death of Chelsea Hyndman, 20, from Castleford, who died in May 2010. Luke Walker, 25, of Brierley Hill, West Midlands, was found guilty of inflicting grievous bodily harm leading to the death of Chelsea Hyndman, 20, from Castleford, in May 2010.
Walker had been on trial at Heraklion Mixed Criminal Court for her murder, a charge he denied. Walker denied murder while on trial at Heraklion Mixed Criminal Court.
But the court accepted a motion from the public prosecutor to downgrade the charge. He was given an eight-year suspended sentence after the court accepted a motion to downgrade the charge.
It was argued that he did not intend to kill Ms Hyndman. The motion came from the public prosecutor after it was argued that Walker did not intend to kill Ms Hyndman.
The court had earlier heard that Ms Hyndman, who had met Walker in the resort town of Malia in 2008, was admitted to hospital with abdominal pains on 16 May 2010 and died from acute peritonitis the following day.
Bloated stomach
Walker, who lived with his girlfriend in Malia, claims she was injured when she fell over on a night out with friends earlier that month.
During the trial he also denied pushing or hurting her. He told the judge that she had not fallen against any furniture.
But in a series of statements read out in court, it was claimed Mr Walker had previously struck his girlfriend.
One letter claiming to be from a woman who signed her name only as "Jessie", said Mr Walker was sometimes jealous of other men talking to Ms Hyndman, particularly when he was drunk.
The writer of the letter claimed to know of two occasions when Mr Walker had beaten Ms Hyndman and kicked her in the stomach.
Another document submitted to the court was purportedly sent to Greek police by a "Peter Rogers".
In it, he said he had overheard a conversation in which Walker's father, Patrick, said his son had admitted hitting Ms Hyndman.
The court was told that in the lead up to her death, Ms Hyndman's stomach became bloated, her eyes yellow and she was sick and constipated.