A man appeared in court on Monday accused of stealing a lorry and driving it to the north but told the court he was “too drunk to be able to remember” what happened.
A police representative told the court that the man had driven south out of the village of Louroujina and into the Republic on New Year’s Eve.
From there, he managed to take a lorry and a trailer belonging to a business in the Republic and drive it back to the north via Louroujina.
Police later found the lorry parked on northern Nicosia’s ring road, north of the village of Mandres. Their representative in court said they found a shoe print in the lorry identical to one found in the suspect’s house.
He added that two batteries and a tape recorder had been stolen from the lorry.
“I was too drunk to be able to remember what happened, I do not remember anything,” the suspect said.
The police representative told the court that the man had undergone a medical check at northern Nicosia’s Dr Burhan Nalbantoglu hospital, and that he would also undergo testing at the Baris Mental and Neurological Diseases hospital.
Judge Zehra Yalkut Bilgec ordered that the man be detained in custody for eight days.
