Asiye Kaytan, from Denizli in Turkey, had a heated argument with Asiye Vural, 18, when she attempted to leave the house to go out partying with her friends – but the situation quickly escalated
An 80-year-old grandmother who locked her door and gave her granddaughter a slap with a slipper has been handed a four-year prison sentence. Asiye Kaytan, hailing from Denizli in Turkey, had a heated argument with Asiye Vural, 18, when she attempted to leave the house to join her friends on a night out.
The situation quickly escalated when Vural tried to push past her grandmother, who responded by striking her with a slipper. But in retaliation, Kaytan was hit on the head with her granddaughter’s mobile phone. She recounted: “She wanted to go out for the night but I didn’t agree and locked the door.
“I hit her on the hand with a slipper and she hit me on the head with her phone. She got scared when she saw I was bleeding and called an ambulance.”
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However, after medics reported the incident in August last year as a potential act of violence, police brought Vural in for questioning. She was released after the court accepted that she had acted in self-defence.
And on February 25, judges at Turkey’s 12th Criminal Court of First Instance found Kaytan guilty of false imprisonment and assault with a weapon. She was sentenced to four years and two months in jail, despite her age.
A shocked Kaytan exclaimed: “I’m going to prison aged 80? How will I live there? I’m disabled and I can barely walk. They’re going to put me in jail for a pair of slippers? They were slippers, not a gun.”
He granddaughter added: “I didn’t want it to be like this. I didn’t complain about her but there’s been a public case.” Kaytan has been released on bail while her case goes up to the court of appeal.
Her lawyer Hasan Ozan Orpak said on Friday: “There’s a verdict from the local court right now. We hope that this will change legally in the process of the appeal. Slippers have never been seen as a weapon before.”
In other news, mule gran Lindsay Sandiford is so convinced she will walk free after more than a decade on death row in Indonesia she is giving away her clothes to other inmates, sources claim.
The British cocaine trafficker, 67, believes she could dodge the firing squad thanks to a change in the law. She has been held in Bali’s hell-hole Kerobokan jail since 2013 for trying to smuggle £1.6million of cocaine into the country in her suitcase.
But new legislation means her death sentence could be converted into a life prison term as she has managed more than 10 years’ good behaviour behind bars.
