Eleni Pachou was brutally murdered whilst working alone at Di Maggio’s restaurant on the 30th of May 2008. Eleni, along with other senior members of staff held the keys to the overnight cash safe and was left to lock and secure the premises on her own.

Juan Crispin, an ex-employee of Di Maggio’s is accused of robbing and murdering the 25 yr old, as he knew she would be working alone and had full access to the nights takings.

Eleni’s brother Spiro said:

“I was well aware of her position in Di Maggio’s and I also told her that I was not very happy for her having the keys of the shop.

Because it brings responsibilities and as you all saw she could not really defend against anything if things were going wrong, as it happened.”

The www.DailyRecord.co.uk article can be read in full here.
A website pays tribute to Eleni…

The ‘Corporate Manslaughter Act’ was brought in to identify individuals within companies who were/are responsible for the health & safety of employees.

Gary Slapper, Professor of Law at the Open University Business School, said:

“It is important that the authorities are seen to be as tough on crime in the suites as they are on crime in the streets. Globally, more people are killed at work each year than are killed in wars and the law has not yet become strong enough to match the power of some companies.

Of the world’s 100 largest economic entities, 51 are companies and 49 are countries. In the UK, over 300 people are killed at work every year. That number rises to over a thousand if commercially-related road deaths are added and by thousands more if you include long-term deaths like those from asbestosis.

The old law was ineffective. Over 40,000 people were killed in commercially-related circumstances since 1965 but only 36 companies have been prosecuted for homicide. The gap between deaths and convictions cannot be explained away by seeing most deaths as merely unavoidable accidents as in some 70 per cent of cases of deaths at work, the company is blameworthy.”

The full article can be viewed here…

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