#crime

Parliament on Thursday passed a law making femicide a distinct crime punishable by an up-to lifetime jail sentence. The bill passed with 38 votes for, four against. The legislation had been ...

A defendant attempted to flee from his court hearing early on Thursday, leading to police firing warning shots in the air as they dashed after him. The 44-year-old managed to ...

A 40-year-old man is under arrest in connection with two burglaries carried out in March and April in the Limassol district, police said on Thursday. Testimony also emerged that the ...

A 35-year-old man has been hospitalised after he was assaulted on Tuesday night at the apartment of his former partner in Livadia, police said on Wednesday. His condition is described ...

Police on Wednesday urged the public to be on alert following a spate of complaints of misleading messages claiming to be from banks seeking to obtain personal information. In an ...

A 69-year-old man was on Thursday charged with the attempted premeditated murder of his son in the village of Pyrga in the Larnaca district in May, the Cyprus News Agency ...

Two men aged 21 and 26 are under arrest as Paphos police investigate a complaint by a 25-year-old that he had been abducted and assaulted. The alleged incident occurred on June 27. The ...

A 36-year-old man was remanded on Tuesday after cannabis plants were found in his property, police said on Wednesday. Acting on a search warrant, drug squad officers searched the man’...

Paphos police have issued an arrest warrant for a 49-year-old man as they investigate a complaint that he had been paid €46,500 to import two cars but failed to deliver the ...

Police have made three arrests for car theft, catching two of the suspects with one of the two stolen vehicles. In an announcement on Thursday, police said that at around 6.45 ...

Limassol police are investigating a case of online fraud after receiving a complaint on Wednesday from a 66-year-old man who reported having been robbed of €88,930. The man said that, around ...

Police are investigating theft from a bank account and securing goods under false pretenses after a British permanent resident of Paphos reported that her missing credit card had been used ...

Paphos police are investigating a burglary and the theft of passports, cash, and jewellery from a safe, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Tuesday. It said that a little after ...

Dutch prosecutors on Tuesday sought the maximum sentence of life imprisonment against the suspected gunman and the getaway driver involved in last year’s killing of celebrity crime reporter Peter ...

A 39-year-old man was arrested in Paphos for possession of drugs. According to Paphos police spokesman Michalis Nicolaou, officers patrolling a street in town on Monday night stopped the man’...

A 25-year-old Limassol resident was arrested on Wednesday after a gun and ammunition were found in his home, police said on Thursday. According to a police statement, the man was ...

A 31-year-old man will stand trial on December 8 in connection with an incident with football fans outside the Antonis Papadopoulos stadium in Larnaca on April 30, the Cyprus News Agency reported ...

Larnaca district court on Thursday ordered a 32-year-old man remanded in custody for eight days as police investigate a bank robbery committed in Kiti on Wednesday. A police spokesman told ...

Fifteen police officers are facing disciplinary procedures over their alleged failings in investigating the reports of missing women who were later discovered to have been murdered by Nicos Metaxas. They ...

Three people – two men and one woman – were arrested in Limassol early on Monday morning after police were able to stop their vehicle after a car chase. Police said that ...

A 25-year-old man, who allegedly attempted to steal money from the offering box at the Ayios Ambrosios church in the village of Pachna, has been hospitalised at the Limassol general ...

Police have arrested a 22-year-old man who has reportedly admitted to raping three women in Ayia Napa between April 18 and mid-May, the Cyprus News Agency reported on Tuesday. It said ...

Police in Larnaca arrested a 30-year-old man wanted by Moldovan authorities, based on an international warrant. The 30-year-old has reportedly been sentenced to 16 years in prison by the Moldovan authorities ...

Paphos police arrested two people – aged 35 and 26 – in connection to a number of thefts. In the first case, a 35-year-old woman was arrested in connection to a house robbery. According ...