Crime

Police are continuing investigations into the murder of 61-year-old Olga Vasilieva as divers recovered her phone from the sea in the Moni area of Limassol, reports said on Wednesday. The ...

Police are investigating after shots were fired at the home of a 76-year-old in the Ormidia area of Larnaca on Wednesday morning. It has not yet been established why the ...

A fraud case is being investigated in Livadia, Larnaca, where a 46-year-old man was tricked into withdrawing €800 from his bank account, police said on Tuesday. Two women reportedly approached the ...

A 36-year-old groom and his 28-year-old best man were remanded in custody for two days on Tuesday after a dangerous driving stunt at the Ayios Athanasios roundabout in Limassol, filmed ...

A 32-year-old man arrested in connection with a suspected drug trafficking and dealing was remanded on Tuesday for eight days by Larnaca district court. During investigations officers from the organised ...

A 49-year-old man was sentenced on Tuesday to 13 years in prison for killing his 80-year-old father, Giorgos Hadjigeorgiou, in Limassol in July 2025. The Limassol criminal court handed down the sentence ...

The Court of Appeal has upheld prison sentences of seven, and four years imposed on a man convicted of sexually abusing a 10-year-old child in Limassol, despite describing the punishments ...

The defence in the trial of Georgios Christodoulou Zavrantonas – accused of possessing 15kg of cocaine with intent to sell – wrapped up presenting its case on Monday, with the court setting ...

Three men aged 23, 26 and 27 were arrested early on Monday after allegedly attempting to steal a €7,000 iron-cutting machine from a construction site in Yermasoyeia. Police were alerted to suspicious activity around 10...

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 ...