A photograph shared by researcher Makarios Drousiotis on Thursday, purporting to depict an injury on the arm of the woman nicknamed ‘Sandy’, appears to have been uploaded to the Internet years ago.

Earlier in the day, Droushiotis published more content from his archive, consisting of text messages and also a photograph showing a gash on an arm.

A message attributed to ‘Sandy’ reads: “From Michalis yesterday. He was out of control, he must be under pressure, or threatened”.

The reference is to former Supreme Court judge Michalakis Christodoulou, the man whom ‘Sandy’ is said to have accused of raping her years ago.

The message is accompanied by an image of what’s claimed to be a knife wound.

In a separate message in the same sequence, a communication allegedly attributed to Christodoulou states: “She didn’t talk to anyone. What should I tell you? That I almost slaughtered her?”

An audio file published alongside the messages includes a conversation with journalist Stelios Orphanides, in which ‘Sandy’ is heard describing an incident involving a knife.

When asked whether she had been stabbed, she said that she sustained injuries to her hands and adds that she “still has the scars”.

Drousiotis insists the material is genuine. He said the material forms part of more than 130 messages and audio files submitted to the authorities.

However, later on the same day Internet sleuths did a reverse image search for the photograph depicting the scar – finding that the same photo had appeared on a German website in May 2022.

The site in question features online quizzes.

The only difference between the two photographs appears to be their rotation. This was picked up on by various media outlets, including Politis and Sigma.

Similar questions had earlier been raised about other photographs shared by Drousiotis – such as a couple depicting stacks of cash supposedly related to financial transactions between ‘Sandy’ and Christodoulou.

Here again, tech boffins discovered the photographs had been posted on the Internet years ago, republished several times by various media. These photos depict cash seized by authorities in Essen, Germany.