Woman, daughter remanded

A woman and her teenaged daughter were remanded in custody pending trial yesterday on charges of murdering the woman’s husband, following their depositions before a prosecutor. The two suspects were granted time to prepare their depositions before a magistrate. According to police sources, the 45-year-old woman and her 18-year-old daughter claimed that the 49-year-old victim sexually abused the daughter while she was a minor and that he had taken money that belonged to the family. The victim, a taxi driver, was found by his son in a pool of blood in his apartment in the district of Evosmos, in Thessaloniki, late Sunday night. According to investigators, the victim had been stabbed 15 times in the face and neck. A bloody knife was found in a nearby gutter.