Court to rule on Yiannaki pre-trial motion in two weeks

The court hearing the case of former Volunteer Commissioner Yiannakis Yiannaki said Thursday it will decide in two weeks’ time on the defence’s motion for a trial within a trial.

Defence attorneys for Yiannaki have raised a number of pre-trial objections. The latest one, seeking to have the case dismissed, is based on the ‘fruit of the poisonous tree’ argument. Namely that the source of the evidence against Yiannaki was tainted, therefore anything gained subsequently is tainted as well.