On Monday, at the trial over last year’s kidnapping and murder of teenager Vanja Gjorcevska and Pance Zezovski, Vanja’s mother, Zorica Gjorcevska, said that the girl’s father, Aleksandar Gjorcevski, one of the defendants, had suspected from the start that their daughter had been kidnapped, without revealing the reason for his suspicions.
The mother also explained why the teacher called her so soon to tell her that Vanja hadn’t come to school.
“The previous night, we had talked on the phone about some book Vanja had lent to a classmate who claimed she didn’t have it. So, we agreed for them to solve the problem during the first class,” Zorica Gjorcevska said.
However, when Vanja didn’t show up, the teacher immediately called Zorica. Afterwards, the mother tried but wasn’t able to get her on the phone and located her mobile device on Partizanski Odredi Boulevard, near Silbo Bakery in Skopje. After that, she notified Aleksandar.
Aleksandar’s lawyer, Vladimir Tufegdzic, said after the hearing that Zorica’s testimony had just gone on to confirm the thesis that the father had nothing to do with the crime.
Asked by principal defendant Ljupco Palevski’s lawyer, Marjan Vitanovski, whether she knew his client, she said she didn’t even though she knew he had collaborated with her father over the purchase of the flat on Naum Naumovski Borche Street.
At the same time, Zorica stated that she had no information as to whether Gjorcevski and Palevski knew each other.