On August 28 Greek-Australian John Xypolitos, 57, of Hughesdale, was found guilty of murdering his companion’s son17-year-old Gary Adams.
Xypolitos murdered the 17-year-old with a hammer, then dismembered his body with a hacksaw and dumped pieces at tips across Melbourne in plastic bags.
After Xypolitos killed the boy, he left his body in the padlocked shed of their house and began preparing the evening meal for his partner as if nothing had happened.
The murder took place in 2003, but Xypolitos was arrested in 2012.
Prosecutor Andrew Tinney SC told Xypolitos’ Victorian Supreme Court trial he was guilty of a crime of “extraordinary coldness and calculation.”
“With the use of a hacksaw he turned a human being into a large number of sections of flesh and bone,” Tinney told the jury.
Xypolitos had pleaded not guilty to murdering Gary on December 5, 2003, claiming he killed the 17-year-old in self-defense: “Gary attacked me with a screwdriver,” he claimed.
But he confessed to killing the teenager to an undercover police officer in early 2012, as the court was told.
Xypolitos will face a plea hearing on Aug. 29.