Despina Piperidis has called for charges to be laid on the resident deemed responsible for the stabbing death of her son Greg in 2021.
46-year-old Greg was stabbed 14 times by Robert Hamilton and his teenage son, Billy, after they found him attempting to steal bicycles with co-accused Bradley Cruse in the underground carpark of their Bentleigh East apartment building in the early hours of June 26, 2021.
The Hamiltons claimed self defence and have not been charged by police.
Ms Piperidis told the Herald Sun her son may have been doing the wrong thing, but he would not have harmed anyone and did not deserve to die.
“We want justice for my son,” Mrs Piperidis said. “There was blood everywhere. I believe that people should take responsibility for what they do. My son did not deserve to go that way.”
The 79-year-old has since called on the Office of Public Prosecutions (OPP) to re-open the case after Coroner Sarah Gebert found Mr Hamilton “caused the death” of Greg by an 18cm-deep stab wound to his chest. The finding did not also support the pair’s version of events that Greg was in a wrestle for Billy’s knife when Mr Hamilton stabbed him.
The coroner did not go as far as to use her power to refer the case to the Director of Public Prosecutions. In February 2022, the OPP said it would not be pursuing criminal charges against the pair as there were “no reasonable prospects of conviction.”
Greg is survived by his mother, father George, and brother Angelo.
Source: Herald Sun
