In June 2009, 24-year-old Glen Daly was killed during his holidays in Crete, Greece. The police believed Glen had lost control of his moped and slid under a lorry that Stefanis Konstantinou was driving. However, his mother, Dorothy Daly, did not accept her son’s death was an accident and launched a four-year campaign for justice that cost her £15,000.
Tony Atkins, Glen’s best friend, who was with him at the time of the crash, told Dorothy that the lorry driver was driving dangerously. Konstantinou left Glen on the road, drove off without calling for help.
After British and Greek authorities refused to re-open the case, Dorothy, mother-of-three and also a grandmother, decided to launch her own investigation. She uncovered one by one Stefanis lies and persuaded Greek prosecutors to reopen the case.
Finally, Stefanis was convicted of negligent homicide and fleeing the scene of the accident, and was sentenced to 23 months imprisonment. Konstantinou is to pay the court about £500 for each month of sentence.
However, Dorothy Daly told BBC: “I realize he’s not going to get a jail sentence, even though he has been convicted, because the system is different to ours. But how is that fair? This hasn’t destroyed his life, but it has destroyed ours – life will never be the same for us again.”
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