Steph was in the car, court hears
AN alleged kidnapper and killer has admitted Stephanie Hammill was in his car the night she died a court heard.
Ioannis Revenikiotis, 29, is standing trial almost four years after the 20-year-old travel agent either fell or jumped from his moving black Mercedes, fearing she would be sexually assaulted, into the path of an oncoming taxi.
Police quizzed the engineer back in his native country of Greece in June 2005 and he denied knowing Miss Hammill.
He also declined to answer when officers confronted him with forensic evidence found inside his car showing Miss Hammill's fingerprints and fibres similar to those on her clothing.
But today (Thursday) at Sheffield Crown Court prosecutor Alistair MacDonald QC said: "The defendant does not dispute that Stephanie Hammill was in his vehicle that night."
Miss Hammill was on a night out in Wakefield city centre with her boyfriend James Garland on November 29, 2003.
As they walked home, to the house they shared on Lincoln Street, Miss Hammill got into Revenikiotis's car believing it was a taxi.
It sped off and Mr Garland was left behind on Balne Lane.
Minutes later Miss Hammill was found dead in the middle of Batley Road, Alverthorpe, after being run over by a bona fide taxi.
Today the jury heard from two women who claim Revenikiotis molested them.
Revenikiotis, formerly of School Crescent, Dewsbury, and more recently of Greece, denies the abduction and the manslaughter of Miss Hammill.
The trial continues.
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