Criminal. She will be remembered as being one of the five women executed from 1903 to 1955 at London, England's Holloway Prison for Women. Born in Cyprus in a time that this country was a dependent territory of Britain, she married a very poor man and had a son, Stavros. In 1925, she was charged with murdering her mother-in-law by “ramming a burning torch down her throat.” Although she did this act, she was found not guilty as she had been provoked to an extent that a juridical punishment was inappropriate. Her husband left her after the trial. Her son soon left home and by 1941 had left Cyprus and migrated to London, married a German-born fashion model, Hella, and had three children. In 1953 she came to London to visit with her estranged son and his family, but decided to stay. She was like a stranger to her son since they had little contact for over twelve years. She disagreed with the way her daughter-in-law was raising her grandchildren to the point that her son was going to tell her that she was no longer a welcome guest in his home. A plan for the daughter-in-law and children to visit the Hella's family in Germany was made, and while Hella was away, the son would ask his mother to leave. Eavesdropping, Christofi learnt of the plan and became furious. On the evening of July 29, 1954 while her son was at work, she knocked her daughter-in-law unconscious, strangled her to death with a scarf, removed her wedding ring as if to divorce her from her son, dragged her body to the garden, and there attempted to cremate the body by pouring gasoline over it and lighting a fire. A neighbor witnessed her act in the garden, but he thought it was not a human body being burnt. When the fire got out of control, fireman were called, and after seeing the human body being burned, the fireman called the police. She was arrested and charged with murder; tried with the defense of being insane; and after four days, she was found sane and guilty of first degree murder. As an gray-haired grandmother who spoke little English, she was hung on December 15, 1954. After her death, the public learned of her 1925 incident in murdering her own mother-in-law. She was buried on the prison grounds in an unmarked grave. In 1971, while the prison was being remodeled, all five executed women were exhumed. Four were buried in Brookwood Cemetery in a single grave except Ruth Ellis who was buried elsewhere. It is doucmented that her son Stavros never visited her in jail or her grave site.