Theodora Zeberi

An Athens court handed down two life sentences to a 58-year-old man for the murder of a 32-year-old tax officer last year.

A prosecutor had earlier proposed a guilty verdict, without mitigating circumstances.

Police officers scrambled to shield a 58-year-old man charged with the murder of a 32-year-old tax officer from angry protesters outside the capital's Evelpidon court complex on Friday. In his testimony before an investigating magistrate, the man allegedly admitted to stabbing Theodora Zeberi 14 times on the afternoon of October 18.

A mob at Athens's Evelpidon court complex attacks a 58-year-old man accused of killing tax office worker Theodora Zeberi at Athens's Second Cemetery in the western suburb of Rizoupoli on October 18 with the intent to rob her. The suspect was given until Friday to prepare his testimony.

The Justice Ministry on Wednesday responded to reports that the man accused of stabbing to death 32-year-old tax office worker Theodora Zeberi at Athens's Second Cemetery in the western suburb of Rizoupoli on October 18 had been released from prison in May.

A 58-year-old man being charged with the murder of a 32-year-old tax officer was attacked and beaten by angry citizens on Wednesday as police officers escorted him from the capital's Evelpidon court complex after a magistrate gave him until Friday to prepare his defense.

The Greek police (ELAS) on Tuesday said it had detained a 58-year-old man who has admitted to killing a 32-year-old woman at Athens's Second Cemetery in the western suburb of Rizoupoli on October 18.

Police investigating the violent murder of a 32-year-old tax inspector in an Athens cemetery last month are seeking a man aged around 60 years who was captured by the security camera of a store near Omonia Square in central Athens selling the woman's phone just over an hour after her death. 

Police probing the violent murder of a 32-year-old tax inspector in an Athens cemetery have not ruled out the possibility of a link to one of the cases she handled, though a personal dispute is thought to be a more likely motive.

The father of a 32-year-old tax worker who was murdered in an Athens cemetery on Wednesday has called on the Financial Crimes Unit to look into any suspicious cases his daughter may have worked on.