Court deliberates whether dead witness can testify in suicide teen case

The question of if a dead witness can testify in court was the central subject of Friday’s hearing of the trial of 11 suspects into the circumstances surrounding the death of Stylianos Constantinou, the 15-year-old boy who ended his life by suicide in 2019.

Constantinou had, according to his former nursery school teacher Konstantina Papachristodoulou, told her that he was being abused at his home, with references to what Constantinou had allegedly said appearing in a written statement she had...