Greek Crimewatch could give us final piece of the puzzle
The suspicious death of an expat in Crete is to feature on the Greek version of Crimewatch in an attempt to help officers in a new cold case probe.
Jean Hanlon was recovered from the sea at Heraklion harbour four days after she sent a friend a text message which said “help me”.
When they closed their investigation 11 years ago, police said the 53-year-old had accidentally drowned, despite a coroner’s report confirming that she suffered shattered ribs, a punctured lung and facial wounds.
But a Channel 5 documentary last June – Murdered in Paradise: The Killing of Jean Hanlon – triggered a fresh probe.
And now her three sons, Michael, Robert and David Porter, are hoping that footage from the programme can be used on Greek crime-fighting show Light in the Tunnel and encourage witnesses to come forward with new information.
Michael, 35, of Dumfries, said: “Light in the Tunnel has a reputation in Greece for solving cold murder cases so it’s really important that my mum’s case is being covered.
“It‘s considered Greece’s Crimewatch. Going over the details and circumstances of my mum’s death on TV will raise awareness all over Greece and make the public, politicians and police sit up and take notice.
“It has been more than 10 years since mum died and we hope by getting her story out to the Greek public again will help us f ind out exact ly what happened to her.”
Light in the Tunnel claim to have found more than 1610 missing people and solved 25 murders with the help of investigative journalist Aggeliki Nikolouli and her experienced team.
Filming has already begun and Michael said that he hopes the show will help locate the man that his mum was last seen with.
Michael – who lives in London and works for a construction firm –