A Greek woman sentenced to life last year for murdering her nine-year-old daughter received two additional life terms on Tuesday for killing her two other children.
The court in Athens found that Roula Pispirigou suffocated her infant daughters Malena and Irida in 2019 and 2021, in what were ultimately unsuccessful attempts to prevent her husband repeatedly abandoning her.
Pispirigou, 36, insists she is innocent and is expected to appeal.
A separate court had found her guilty in March 2024 of killing her nine-year-old daughter Georgina.
That led to a reassessment of the deaths of Malena and Irida which revealed they had been asphyxiated, thus sparking a new murder trial.
Trial prosecutor Vassiliki Dimopoulou told the Athens court earlier this month that Pispirigou had killed her children “to keep her marriage going”.
“This shows a person who acted methodically and with forethought,” she said.