The bruises on the defendants' bodies
Contrary to the defendants' claims in their testimonies that they gave the deceased only a few "kappas" and he fell and lost consciousness, the investigators documented a number of injuries on their bodies, which in their interrogations the defendants claimed were caused as a result of the assault on the deceased; Injuries that are inconsistent with their current description of the alleged minor assault, and reinforce the description they gave in their police interrogations of a prolonged and brutal assault together, even after the deceased fell to the ground, with fists, kicks and various objects.
Defendant 1's hands had several scratches on the inside of his hands, mainly on his right hand, and an injury to his right pinky, and he complained of pain in the area of the cushion of his right hand under the pinky and in his leg, according to him, as a result of "what we did" (P/7 S. 80-82, P/7C starting at 21:39). Numerous bruises were found on the backs of defendant 2's hands, mainly on the knuckles (which is very consistent with punching), as well as swelling and bruising on his right leg, which he claimed was caused by the kick he gave to the deceased (P/12A, pp. 24-25). The aforementioned injury to the leg of defendant 2 is also consistent with what emerges from the security camera footage before the defendants arrived at the gas station, where defendant 2 is seen walking with his left leg pulled up and he is fiddling with him. As will be detailed below, the defendants' suppressive claims that the injuries were not caused by the assault on the deceased, but rather by dragging him, cannot be accepted, since they were unable to provide any reasonable explanation for the suppression of this version, or for the fact that they gave more incriminating and serious details in their statements.
Additional phone calls attesting to early planning
It is not for nothing that all the relevant telephone conversations and correspondence that Defendant 1 made in the days leading up to the incident were detailed above, since the picture that emerges from the entirety of the conversations and correspondence of Defendant 1 strengthens the conclusion that the incident was premeditated in advance, and that the defendants acted in a cold and calculated manner in order to receive the deceased's drugs no matter what, while Defendant 1 even took advantage of his friendly relationship with the deceased.