Killing talk a ‘bizarre aphrodisiac’, jury hears

Vicky Soteriou

Vicky Soteriou. Picture: Tim Carrafa
Source: Herald Sun




A WOMAN accused of plotting with her secret lover to kill her husband told police the foiled plan was “absolutely silly”, a jury heard yesterday.


The mother of three liked to discuss killing her husband with boyfriend Ari Dimitrakis, 49, because it acted as a “bizarre aphrodisiac” and led to better sex, the Supreme Court heard.

Video footage of Vicky Soteriou, 44, talking about the near-fatal attack on Chris Soteriou was yesterday played to the jury.

In his opening address, prosecutor Andrew Tinney, SC, said Ms Soteriou had met Dimitrakis on January 2 last year and gave him a knife wrapped in a towel.

That night, Dimitrakis lay in wait for the couple to return from Mr Soteriou’s birthday party in Fitzroy, Mr Tinney said.

He stabbed Mr Soteriou and cut his throat.

Mr Soteriou was in an induced coma for nine days. Afterward, he told his wife police believed they were closing in on his attacker.

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“That day or the next she went to the police station and confessed her guilt,” Mr Tinney said.

Ms Soteriou, of Watsonia North, has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and intentionally causing serious injury.

In the videoed interview played yesterday, she said: “I came here to say I’m guilty of that and I did it for Ari and I’m sorry for it.”

Asked why she wanted her husband dead, she replied: “I didn’t really. He (Dimitrakis) kept mentioning it and mentioning it and I just thought ‘all right’. It was basically like that. He (Dimitrakis) showed me so much love.”

Mr Tinney said Ms Soteriou continued to send love letters to Mr Dimitrakis and call him “my love, my life, my everything.”

“I need to see you everyday. Eternally yours, my soul, marry me,” she wrote.

The jury heard they had tattoos of each other’s initials and had bought cemetery plots together in 2009 at Keilor, kissing and cuddling and telling staff to put the graves in the names of Ari and Vicky Dimitrakis.

Phil Dunn, QC, for Ms Soteriou, questioned whether she had confessed to an affair or to a crime.

“This is not a court of morals and we do not punish (her) because she was having an affair,” he said.

Mr Dunn said Ms Soteriou had broken off the affair with Dimitrakis and he had reacted like a “spoilt brat of a man behaving as if one of his possessions had been taken away from him.”

“Did he behave as a result of being told what to do by Vicky Soteriou, or did he do this affected by drugs, alcohol and hurt feelings of a Greek man who couldn’t have the married woman he wanted?” Mr Dunn said.

The trial continues.

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