Greek nightclub bouncer jailed for 22 years over Doujon Zammit's death

Greek nightclub bouncer Marios Antonopoulos, 28, was yesterday jailed for 22 years for causing the death of Maltese-Australian tourist Doujon Zammit in the summer of 2008.

A Greek jury found him not guilty of murder but guilty of causing serious injuries that led to Mr Zammit's death.

Two other Greek men, George Chatzioannou and Dimitri Varonas, were convicted of having been present but not of having had the intention to kill Mr Zammit. The first was jailed for eight years and the other for seven and a half years.

Stamatis Daktylidis, the owner of the nightclub, was found not guilty of supplying the truncheons with which Mr Zammit was bludgeoned.

Mr Zammit's parents Oliver and Rosemarie were in court for the verdict alongside Kostas Gribilas, who has received the young man's donor heart.

Mr Zammit died from head injuries when he was savagely beaten with metal truncheons after leaving a nightclub. It was wrongly claimed that Mr Zammit and his friends had been involved in the disappearance of a number of wallets.

Mr Zammit had been to Malta a few days before travelling to Greece as part of a European holiday.