Macedonian citizen Miško L. (43), accused of murdering 45-year-old Greek woman Stavroula Leventaki in Crete, was due to appear before the court today. According to the allegations, he confessed to police that he killed her after an argument, then transported the body by car and buried it in a nearby field.

The victim had injuries to the chest and head, likely inflicted with a metal object. The case, which Greek and Macedonian media have been following these days, took on a new dimension after the accused man's wife publicly came to his defence. "I am certain he is innocent. I will stand by him to the death," she said, claiming that in twenty years of marriage her husband never looked at another woman.

When a crime crosses the border, it stops being merely an item in the crime pages - it becomes a test of how two states cooperate in matters of justice. The legal proceedings in Greece will now show what actually happened, beyond the confessions, the defences and the emotions of those closest.

Metla will not pass judgment in place of the court. The facts will be established by the proceedings, not by the headlines. But the story is a reminder that behind every such piece of news stands a lost human life - a woman who is no longer here - and that the real answer lies not in who said what before a camera, but in what the courtroom determines.