Ayia Napa murder suspects arrested in Kyrenia

August 19th, 2016 Crime, Cyprus 27 comments

Ayia Napa murder suspects arrested in Kyrenia

 

Two men wanted by Cyprus police in connection with the fatal stabbing of Briton George Low on Sunday in Ayia Napa, were captured in Kyrenia on Friday by Turkish Cypriot police, according to reports in Turkish Cypriot media.

The two men, Mehmet Akpinar, 22, and Ahmed Salih, 43, will be brought before a court for a remand hearing on Saturday.

Police said late Friday said they could not comment on the reports.

Earlier on Friday, claims had surfaced that the two suspects in the murder were not Turkish Cypriots and there was no confirmation they had escaped to the breakaway state in the north of the island.

According to media reports quoting Hakki Onen, the Turkish Cypriot co-chairman of the bicommuncal technical committee on crime earlier on Friday, one of the suspects was a Turk from Bulgaria while the other was either a Kurd or an Arab.

It was not immediately known who was who.

Police said they had no official information about the matter.

A spokesman said they had issued the arrest warrants against Akpinar and Salih based on a statement given by a third suspect, Koulla Anastasiou, 48. Anastasiou said she lived with Akpinar in her Kamares home in Larnaca. She was the one who told police the two were Turkish Cypriots.

Police said 22-year-old estate agent Low from Dartford, in Kent, and his friend Ben Joseph Robert Parker were walking along Grigori Afxentiou Street at around 3.20am when they were attacked by two men, armed with knives, who then fled in different directions.

Low suffered a fatal blow to his neck, which severed his carotid artery and was declared dead at 3.40am at the private clinic the two were rushed to in Paralimni. Parker was stabbed four times in the back. His condition is not life-threatening.

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  • Mike Smith

    Glad to hear they’re not TC. Whatever they are let’s hope they suffer the consequences of their disgusting actions and well done to the TCs for arresting the shite.

    • Adele

      Well said Mike but I’m so confused so maybe I should stop commentating at the moment….

      • Cem2007

        Adele, you can Not be confused as mach as myself, foloving from the begining, this case, altered 10 times. according the witneses the killers was short and dark skin and young persons, I did mention then, supposed suspect namely Salih Ahmet, he is not either young or short, he is half cast black Cypriot, whom lived in Limassol many years, desription No much!!! so as far as I understand now, 1 is Cypriot, and 1 is not!!! I’ll think I’ll go and pour my self generous portion of Whisky, maybe my brain start to get in to gear, this case got me confused more then any one else, I am shutting the shop for today. have nice weekend people.and keep away from police reports.

        • Adele

          Same to you Mustafa let’s hope we can get unconfused soon , have a great weekend.

  • Slomi

    But this is the tip by the ex girl friend of one man.Who knows what is true!

  • cypbychoice

    Lets hope they will work together and send the suspects back, even with a international arrest warrant I can not see it being easy. The fact that it was a UK citizen that was murdered could get the UK involved, but look how long it took to get Azil Nadier back to England for the Polly Peck trial from the North

    • CM reader

      And what happened there? Do you actually believe he is doing / done his time? The nadier scandal illustrates that blatant corruption exists everywhere and I say that for those ex pat Brits who like to bang on about corruption in Cyprus. Miraculously he finds himself at Heathrow airport ,manages to go through customs without a passport,gets on his private jet and escapes from the police! Wow he puts 007 to shame! A few years later the conservatives win the election whose pockets he lined with stolen money,which I may add the Tory party should have returned as they were proven to be the proceeds of crime, next day he is on the plane to London. He gets to stay in his Kensington mansion (note it was not confiscated after he became a fugitive from British justice) and attends court , they even have him interviewed at news at ten telling us about what a great philanthropist he is! Then gets 7 years in prison and it all goes quite! I doubt if he did the time! The losers? The legitimate owners of the orange groves he exported their produce, the hard working people of the U.K. Whose pension fund savings he embezzled. Interestingly none of this was mentioned in the press!

      • elbmw

        Quite right…but lets not kid ourselves and think that he made his billions from a few orange trees in Morphou.

        There are far more lucrative ventures to be had in an area of the world that no international inspectors would ever visit. I’m sure you can work out what that is. Occupied Cyprus is a dream come true for these sorts of things.

        Polypeck and Del Monte were used as fronts to wash some of the proceeds from his more creative activities.

        • CM follower

          True! What gets me is he got t away with it and the British establishment helped and assisted him to do so.

          • elbmw

            Its because they were partners. But there isn’t much need for Cyprus as a distribution hub any longer and the “product” can now be shipped directly from Afghanistan.

      • cypbychoice

        I do not disagree with all you said , what i am trying to say is it will not be that easy to get the two back , I just used A.N. ( the shit ) as an example

  • Steven Roberts

    Looks like the police forces on the island CAN work together to apprehend suspects.
    It would be good if they could do the same with the minority of so called ‘Apoel fans’ attacking north Cyprus registered cars at the traffic lights, after getting tanked up in their fortified fan club in south Nicosia….

  • Neroli

    Does it matter which nationality they are as long as they are caught?

    • gentlegiant161

      With reapect it does as the usual suspects (who are strangely quiet right now on this site and the FB page ) wasted no time in screaming insults of all kinds at the Turkish Cypriots..which hardly helps the reunification process.
      The woman who has been arrested said they were TCs and many took his as an opportunity to attack without waiting for the truth to surface.
      I wouldn’t be surprised if the “urinating” excuse turns out to be false also.

      • Neroli

        I agree fully with what you say about the TC thing and don’t believe it was a ‘urinating’ excuse, – and what an excuse for murder! Whoever killed George Low, whether he was British/Cypriot/French etc. as long as that person is caught is all that matters to his family

      • Slomi

        Yes. This is true.

  • elbmw

    First they were Turkish Cypriots then they weren’t and now they are caught in Kyrenia.

    I don’t know what to believe anymore.

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