Crime

A 43-year-old Syrian national was remanded in custody for eight days by the Limassol district court on Sunday after admitting that he killed his partner, 61-year-old Olga Vasilyeva, with repeated ...

The Court of Appeal on Friday unanimously ordered a man who killed his neighbour’s cat by repeatedly striking it on the head with a broomstick to serve a two-month ...

Police are investigating two suspected fraud cases involving elderly residents in Kalo Chorio, Larnaca, where a man allegedly posing as a police officer obtained a total of €55. According to Larnaca ...

The Limassol permanent criminal court sentenced four men to life imprisonment for the premeditated murder of Thanasis Kalogeropoulos on Friday. The court concluded that the guilt of all four was ...

A 28-year-old man was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Wednesday after admitting to charges of illegally possessing and possessing with intent to supply 2kg of cocaine and 8kg of ...

The three people who were arrested on suspicion of having kidnapped and assaulted a 24-year-old Turkish Cypriot man in Limassol were released without charge pending the completion of investigations into ...

A second arrest was made on Tuesday over the kidnapping and assault of a 24-year-old Turkish Cypriot man in Limassol, police said. The arrested man is 45, with the police already ...

Twenty people were arrested during a police operation at an apartment complex in central Limassol on Tuesday for staying illegally in Cyprus. The morning operation formed part of a large-scale ...

A 24-year-old Turkish Cypriot man was kidnapped and attacked with a knife in Limassol, the city’s police’s deputy operations chief Lefteris Kyriacou confirmed on Monday, following widespread reports ...

Police on Monday cautioned about increasingly sophisticated online scams where criminals use artificial intelligence to mimic the faces and voices of loved ones and colleagues. The warning is part of ...

A 42-year-old man was injured after his vehicle collided with another car on the road between Polis Chrysochous and the nearby village of Yiolou while he was almost six times ...

A 20-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a burglary which occurred in Nicosia, the police said on Sunday. The police were informed of the incident on Friday, with ...

The police on Saturday announced that they had arrested a ninth individual, a 17-year-old boy, as investigations into an assault on a 16-year-old boy in the Nicosia suburb of Latsia ...

A 38-year-old man was on Saturday morning arrested for reversing his car into two women who were walking through a car park in Nicosia, while the police said that the ...

A 31-year-old food delivery rider based in Limassol has reported being attacked and robbed, the police said on Saturday, with the incident the latest in an ongoing series of similar ...

The Nicosia criminal court on Friday ruled that Georgios Christodoulou Zavrantonas must for a second time respond to charges related to the alleged possession of 15 kilograms of cocaine. He had ...

By Dina Husseini Two traffic accidents in Limassol caused significant property damage but no injuries, police reported on Friday. The first incident occurred around 1am on Ayias Fylaxeos Street when ...

The court of appeal has increased a 26-year-old man’s sentence for setting fire to a car in Nicosia from one year to two, ruling that jealousy – his apparent motive – ...

Seven people arrested in connection with an assault on a 16-year-old boy in Latsia on October 9 are expected to appear before Nicosia district court on Wednesday. The suspects are aged 21, 17, 16, 14 ...

Police have launched an investigation into the disappearance of the body of a British man who died in Paphos around one month ago, after it was found to be missing ...

The first hearing in the trial of a 58-year-old man accused of murdering Alexandros Antoniou in the village of Konia in November 2025 will be held on January 27 next year, the ...

The trial of a 36-year-old man accused of kidnapping and threatening two women with a knife in a Larnaca flat in March 2026 has been postponed to November 4, police said on ...

The police chief on Monday ordered an administrative investigation into the circumstances of the escape of a teenager from police custody but was later re-apprehended. The 18-year-old had managed to ...

An 81-year-old woman in Limassol lost €33,424 in an online scam after receiving a text message appearing to come from the national health system (Gesy), police said on Monday. The woman ...