Crime

Two 17-year-olds from Syria were sentenced to two years in prison on Thursday for setting fire to a hotel operating as a shelter for unaccompanied underaged migrants in Oroklini, Larnaca. ...

A teenager was sentenced to ten months in jail on Thursday for assaulting a delivery rider in August, in Limassol. The Limassol District Court found the 18-year-old guilty as one ...

The Larnaca criminal court jailed two women aged 20 and 22 for 11 years on Thursday after finding them guilty of importing 41 kilogrammes of cannabis to the island. The two convicted women were ...

Three more suspects have been arrested in connection with the discovery of over nine kilos of cannabis last August in Limassol. The three men, two aged 30 and one 25-year-old, were ...

Finikoudes seafront in Larnaca is getting a permanent police presence, with an information kiosk and foot patrol officers, to crack down on crime and increase the sense of safety among ...

A 29-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday night in Paphos for driving under the influence of drugs. The arrest took place around 11pm according to the police’s assistant operations ...

An uninsured car driven by a 16-year-old was involved in a traffic accident in Paphos on Tuesday, after which the minor left the scene. According to Paphos police spokesperson Michalis ...

Police have arrested an individual as part of an investigation into forgery and circulation of a counterfeit document at Paphos airport. According to Paphos police spokesperson Michalis Nikolaou, the incident ...

A delivery driver has been hospitalised after being the victim of yet another attack in Limassol in the early hours of Tuesday morning. The driver, a 28-year-old Bangladeshi national, was ...

A 26-year-old man suffered a facial fracture and other injuries to his body after being involved in violent episodes while leaving a football match on Monday night. The incident occurred ...

A 23-year-old man was arrested in Larnaca on Saturday night in an ongoing case of conspiracy, theft, illegal possession of property and drugs. According to police, at 11.40 on Saturday night ...

Telecom company Epic on Friday said there was no evidence of a data breach on its systems so far, after a leak purporting to show 46 users and their passwords was ...

Sefer Bugra Altundag, the man who killed 16-year-old Zehie Helin Reessur in January last year, was sentenced to life in prison in court in Trikomo on Friday. Altundag had been ...

The man driving the motorcycle carrying the shooter in the murder of 34-year-old Demetris Andronikou in April was on Friday sentenced to life in prison by the Nicosia criminal court. ...

The Turkish Cypriot police on Thursday night confirmed the arrest of a man who had been seen running naked through the streets of the northern Nicosia suburb of Mandres. Videos ...

Another delivery driver was attacked in Limassol, police confirmed on Friday. The attack took place at around 10.30pm on Thursday night, with Limassol police deputy spokesman Marinos Vasiliou telling television ...

An 18-year-old male was arrested for delivering around 400 grams of cannabis to a house, police announced on Friday. The arrest had taken place after the youth went to a house ...

The House plenum on Thursday greenlit a law that affords free legal aid to women who are victims of abuse and to victims of domestic violence. Under the legislation, women ...

Police are searching for a man in his 60s suspected of stealing $40,000 from a currency exchange service store in Limassol through deception. According to the CID, a 54-year-old employee reported ...

Police were mobilised on Thursday to respond to a reported “bomb threat” in a school in Nicosia. According to the Cyprus News Agency, the threat was called in to a ...

Sefer Bugra Altundag, the man who killed 16-year-old Zehie Helin Reessur in January last year, was found guilty on five counts in court in Trikomo on Thursday. Altundag had been ...

The two men accused of murdering 45-year-old Ayca Alav in Nicosia’s walled city last December were on Thursday filmed running away from court after having been taken there in ...

By Tom Cleaver The British bases on Thursday announced that a total of 312 blackcaps – commonly known as ‘ambelopolia’ – which had been illegally trapped, had been seized at crossing points they ...

Three men appeared in court in northern Nicosia on Thursday morning after a 24-year-old man died in a fire in an apartment block in Mia Milia in the early hours ...