CONVICTED murderer and rapist Antonis Prokopiou Kitas told Paphos Criminal Court yesterday how the 29-year-old hairdresser accused of murdering his pregnant girlfriend and her three-year-old daughter Victoria late last year, revealed intimate details of how and why he allegedly did it.
Julia Oborok, 24, was found shot dead, four months into her pregnancy, in her rental car along a beach in Yeroskipou last December, while her daughter was found strangled 50m away.
Kitas, who was heavily guarded, told the court that his decision to reveal every detail that the accused hairdresser confided in him was because every time he looked at his own three-year-old, he felt that he was concealing a massive crime.
He also said that he was carrying a whole truck full of sins, weighing him down, and could not carry this one too.
According to Kitas, also known as Al Capone, the hairdresser who has been sharing the same wing as him in the Central Prisons allegeldy decided to share details of the murder.
Kitas said the hairdresser had started to feel the strain after a witness testified that he had seen the number plates of the car used on the night of the murder.
The convict told the court the hairdresser’s plan was to allegedly murder Oborok’s ex-husband, Odysseas Pozides, with his help, allegedly for a fee. Under the alleged plan, authorities would retrieve the murder weapon and the hairdresser – already in jail - would be off the hook for the murder of the entire family.
Instead almost two months ago, Kitas led police to what turned out to be the murder weapon, hidden in a family gravestone in a cemetery in Athienou. Several weeks later police arrested the 32-year-old brother of the hairdresser allegedly tasked with transporting the gun from Paphos to the Athienou cemetery.
All of the details, were recorded in a diary Kitas kept. According to Kitas, once the hairdresser made the alleged decision to murder Oborok, he allegedly bought two guns and some drugs from a 29-year-old mechanic – police arrested him last month - who also helped him set fire to his hair salon, as he was having problems with his business partner at the time.
Kitas said the hairdresser allegedly asked Oborok to meet him where they first met, along the Yeroskipou beach front so they could work things out. But he asked her not to bring Victoria.
Kitas then demonstrated in court how the hairdresser allegedly shot Oborok in the head through the closed window of the car, and then emptied the remaining bullets in her chest. He then took the crying child, according to Kitas, who was clutching her mother, to the small pool of water on the beachfront and held her head down until she stopped moving. But when he realised that Victoria still had a pulse he pushed her head down into the water again and then threw her into the sea, the court heard.
According to Kitas’ descriptions the hairdresser passionately loved Oborok but suffered from extreme jealousy. He had also forbidden her from having any contact with her ex-husband, something she did not stick to which led the hairdresser to viciously beating her on several occasions. He also felt that Oborok led him to believe that the child she was having was not even his, said Kitas.
Cross-examination by the prosecution in the afternoon did not take place as Kitas did not feel well and asked to be taken back to the Central Prisons. The trial will continue on June 8.
Kitas was found guilty of masterminding the theft of the remains of former President Tassos Papadopoulos in December 2009. He was already serving life for the murder of two women in 1993.