Michalis Zafeiropoulos

An Athens court handed life terms to three Albanian convicts on Thursday after finding them guilty of the murder of Athens lawyer Michalis Zafeiropoulos in 2017.

Following a prosecutor's proposal for an exemplary punishment, the court sentenced Ibrahim Brahimai, who shot the lawyer, to life, plus an additional 11 years.

One of two inmates who escaped from a prison in Avlona, north of the Greek capital, on Monday night has been arrested in downtown Athens.

Police tracked the unnamed convict to Omonia Square and are still looking for the second.

Albanian authorities have arrested a second suspect in the murder in 2017 of Athens lawyer Michalis Zafeiropoulos.

Eno Mata, known as the Winged Maradona, was arrested following a shootout between the villages of Vlore and Fieri in southern Albania.

Mata had been with an accomplice who was fatally injured. 

A 65-year-old man became the second lawyer to be remanded in custody over his alleged involvement in a guns-for-hire gand working out of the Greek capital's Korydallos Prison.

One prisoner has been killed and at least seven were wounded in a fray at Athens' Korydallos Prison, where violence and murders have been raging.

The trial of two alleged members of a criminal racket implicated in the October 2017 murder of Athens lawyer Michalis Zafeiropoulos began under tight security on Friday at a court in Athens.

Supreme Court prosecutor Xeni Dimitriou is expected to appoint an investigating magistrate in the coming days to probe a criminal racket believed to be operating in Athens's maximum-security Korydallos Prison.

Concerns are growing about conditions at the capital's high-security Korydallos Prison following the death of a second suspected gang member there within a few days.

The 33-year-old man who was found dead in his cell on Sunday is believed to belong to the same gang as a man who was stabbed to death at the prison earlier this month, 36-year-old Albanian national Arber Bako.

A 33-year-old man who was found dead in his cell in the Greek capital's Korydallos Prison on Sunday is believed to be part of the same gang as a man who was stabbed to death at the prison earlier this month and another inmate.

Two inmates appeared before a prosecutor on Tuesday, under tight security, over the murder of fellow inmate 36-year-old Albanian national, Arber Bako, in Korydallos Prison in Athens on Monday.

The two suspects, a 33-year-old Albanian and a 24-year-old Greek, are charged with murder and illegal arms possession.