Murder suspect remanded for eight days

A 64-year-old suspected of murdering a 55-year-old woman has been remanded for eight days by the Nicosia District Court, police said on Thursday.

According to police, the 64-year-old was taken to court earlier on Thursday, where he was remanded into custody, as investigations continue into the premeditated murder of Liliana Niteanu, 55, whose body was found in an abandoned house in Nicosia on Tuesday afternoon.

An autopsy carried out on the deceased found that she died from haemorrhagic shock caused from injuries with a sharp object, police said on Wednesday as investigations continued.

The cause of death was revealed after a post-mortem carried out on the dead woman by state examiner Nicolas Charalambous on Wednesday morning.

The body was found covered with a sheet shortly after 4pm on Tuesday in an abandoned two-storey house on a secondary street of Kennedy avenue Nicosia by a building contractor who went there to carry out work.