The devastated mum of the young Polish woman abducted and murdered on the island of Kos has said the body found in a bin bag may not be her daughter’s.
Anastazja Rubinska’s mother landed in Greece on 16th June with a group of private detectives to join in the search for her missing daughter.
Anastazja, 27, had vanished without a trace four days earlier.
Her naked body was found under a tree in a wetland on 18th June. It was covered in branches, with half of it inside a black bag.
Anastazja’s mum returned to Poland two days later.
She recently told Greek media: “For me, this is a case that reeks of foul play. My daughter was murdered and abducted.
“She started sending screenshots to her partner, who reported it to the police, and they were supposed to take care of it.
“But they told him to come to the police station in Kos City the next morning because they lived in Marmari.
“It’s strange to me that there were search activities, supposedly with drones and dogs, a few days ago, and nobody could find her, and suddenly she was in a state of decomposition?
“How is that possible? Why didn’t they find her earlier?”
Anastazja last spoke with her mother around 6pm the day she went missing.
Her mum recalled: “We talked every day, we saw each other on camera, and even on that day, we saw each other on camera, and everything was fine.”
A 32-year-old Bangladeshi man is being held in custody on suspicion of her abduction and rape.
The mother said: “If he did what he did, then he is simply an animal. That’s what it seems to me, because who would do such a thing?”
She added that her daughter’s remains were so badly decomposed she could only identify her via her ring.
The mum complained: “I don’t like how this investigation is being conducted. It’s a strange and suspicious case.
“I wasn’t present for the identification of the body, I didn’t see my daughter, the body, or any belongings.
“I wasn’t there for the identification. I told them about the ring she had. In fact, I don’t even know if that’s my daughter.”
However, DNA test results released on 21st June reportedly confirm that the remains do, in fact, belong to Anastazja.
Her family will now be able to begin the repatriation process.
Anastazja had moved to Kos with her boyfriend to work at the restaurant of a five-star hotel a few weeks before the crime.
According to preliminary findings, she went out for a drink on her day off but met a group of Bangladeshi and Pakistani men en route.
After likely consuming alcohol with them, she called her boyfriend around 10.30 pm telling him she would get a ride from one of them back to the hotel.
But moments later, she sent him her location and asked him to come and pick her up.
When he arrived, she was nowhere to be found.
During searches, officers found Anastazja’s mobile phone in an abandoned building near the suspect’s apartment.
Its SIM card had been removed.
In the apartment itself, they found Anastazja’s DNA, blond hair, and a bloodstained shirt.
The suspect appeared in court accompanied by his lawyer on 21st June.
He is still protesting his innocence and has now retracted his initial statement about having sex with the young woman.
