#assault

A man is in custody after punching a 45-year-old woman at a hotel pool in Ayia Napa, according to a report from local police. At around 5.00pm on Thursday, the ...

Police in Limassol caught and arrested a suspected car thief following a chase in the early hours on Monday. According to Limassol police spokesman Lefteris Kyriacou, the incident unfolded around 2.30...

Police in Limassol arrested a 26-year-old man on Friday night, three months after he had allegedly attacked someone, causing serious bodily harm. They described the man’s arrest as “incidental”, ...

A man appeared in court in Morphou on Monday, accused of having drunkenly punched a taxi driver. Speaking in court, police officer Mustafa Goksen said that at around 9.30pm on ...

Police in Limassol issued arrest warrants on Saturday against four people who allegedly vandalised a construction site and attacked construction workers. They said the incident occurred at around 8pm on ...

Dr Pavlos Antoniou was handed a four-month prison sentence by Nicosia district court on Monday after he was found guilty of assaulting a patient. Antoniou is a gastroenterologist and showed “...

A 32-year-old man appeared in court on Sunday accused of causing actual bodily harm and “using a weapon to incite terror” in Xylotymbou. He is being investigated for a total ...

A carer who allegedly beat a 100-year-old man who resided at the care home at which she worked in Famagusta was released on bail on Monday. In court in Famagusta, ...

A woman appeared in court in Famagusta on Friday accused of beating a 100-year-old resident of the care home at which she works. The incident came to light after the 100...

A man was robbed and assaulted with an electrocution device in Limassol on Tuesday. According to state broadcaster CyBC the attack happened shortly after 7pm in a tourist area of ...

A 28-year-old man from Paphos was arrested on Thursday night for drunkenly attacking a policeman. According to the Paphos police’s assistant operations director Michalis Nikolaou, police descended on Poseidon ...

A 25-year-old man from Paphos was arrested on Wednesday after allegedly assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest, and “causing concern”. Paphos police’s deputy chief of operations Michalis Nikolaou explained ...

Police on Sunday said they are investigating the assault of an Israeli man who was putting up posters of children kidnapped by Hamas in Larnaca. The man, together with two ...

Limassol police on Tuesday said they have arrested a second suspect in relation to an assault of a police officer. The 23-year-old was arrested late Monday afternoon, and along with ...

Paphos police have arrested and are detaining a 48-year-old man accused of having sexually harassed a minor. According to police, the suspect is a tourist who was staying in the ...

The US embassy in Cyprus on Friday advised Americans against travelling to the north citing the recent violent incident in the buffer zone. Due to the escalation of events in ...

A kebab shop owner has been jailed for a year after attacking a customer for voting for Stavros Malas in the 2018 Presidential election. According to Phileleftheros, a then-69-year-old regular ...

Two brothers aged 24 and 32, were arrested in Paphos for fighting with each other on the street, issuing threats and disturbing the peace, police said on Monday. According to police, they ...

An appeal is expected to be filed within the day against a court of first instance verdict finding the former bishop of Kiti guilty of the indecent assault of a ...

The women’s organisation Pogo on Thursday called for a protest outside the Holy Synod when it meets on June 13 to decide the fate of the former Bishop of Kiti, ...

The hospitality industry employees of Peo trade union on Wednesday demanded the punishment of the individuals who beat up and robbed a food-delivery driver over the weekend in Limassol. In ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday said he would not be fuelling nationalist fires over the attack on a 25-year-old Turkish Cypriot woman. Speaking to reporters at an event in Paphos, ...

Former Kiti bishop Chrysostomos was handed a 12-month suspended prison sentence for three years on Thursday, after he was found guilty of assaulting a teenage girl in 1981, when he was ...

Paphos police on Tuesday are investigating a case of conspiracy to commit a felony, robbery, assault with actual bodily harm, malicious damage and theft. According to the police, on Tuesday ...