Stelios Foundation donates €90,000 to families of Metaxas’ victims and his children
Financial aid of €90,000 has been paid to the families of the seven victims and to the two children of serial killer Nicos Metaxas by...
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Police chief: we will regain the public’s trust after Metaxas case
New police chief Kypros Michaelides pledged on Thursday that the force shall redouble its efforts to cement a sense of security amid the public, addressing...
Three-month extension for probe into police handling of Metaxas’ missing victims
The independent police watchdog said on Thursday it has granted a three-month extension to investigators probing the way the police handled the disappearances of several...
Last remand order for serial murder suspect
The Nicosia district court on Friday issued a fresh eight-day remand for self-confessed serial killer Nicos Metaxas, allowing police to finally wrap up their investigation...
Body of six-year-old Sierra finally found after suspect taken back to lake (Updated)
After a search lasting nearly two months, the badly decomposed body of six-year-old Sierra, one of the seven victims of a serial killer, was finally...
Water to be pumped from lake in search for Sierra
Authorities on Wednesday announced that they would pump some water out of lake Memi in Xyliatos where investigations are ongoing to locate the remains of...
Police chief launches officer morale boosting mission
Police chief Kypros Michaelides announced on Wednesday he will be touring police units in all districts to boost officer morale following the public outcry over...
Suitcase with third body pulled out of red lake (update 3)
After more than a month searching for it, crews on Tuesday found a suitcase in a lake containing the body of one of the victims...
Authorities ponder pumping water from lake in search for body
Authorities are looking into pumping some water from a lake in a bid to find the body of a child murdered by a self-confessed serial...
Mitsero crew need two more weeks to complete search
Search crews at the red lake in Mitsero will require around two more weeks to exhaust every possibility of finding the body of a victim...
Israeli divers take part in Xyliatos lake search
Israeli divers on Friday started searching a lake in Xyliatos for the body of a six-year-old girl, the victim of a serial killer who also...
Search crews to focus on centre of red lake for third suitcase
Investigations at the Mitsero red lake and at the Memi lake in Xyliatos continued on Monday but without result in the search for the two...
Police do not expect any more Metaxas victims
The police have no reasonable suspicions that the suspected serial killer, 35-year-old Nikos Metaxas, is involved in any further crimes beyond the six murders he...
Court issues fresh remand against self-confessed serial killer
The Nicosia district court on Monday issued a fresh remand order against 35-year-old suspected serial killer Nikos Metaxas to allow police to continue investigations into...
Still no sign of red lake suitcase
Investigations continued on Saturday in a lake in Mitsero village to locate a suitcase with the body of one of the seven victims of self-confessed...
Police were ‘unprofessional,’ president says (Updated)
PRESIDENT Nicos Anastasiades said Friday police had acted in a negligent and unprofessional manner when investigating the disappearance of several women who eventually turned out...
Investigators to probe possible police shortcomings in serial killer case
The independent police watchdog has appointed three criminal investigators to probe possible shortcomings in the handling of the disappearances of women who turned out to...
No progress in red lake search for third body (Update 4)
Investigations at the red lake in Mitsero finished on Wednesday after failing to show any indication of the third body that suspected serial killer Nikos...
Search continues for serial killer victims
The search for the victims of a self-confessed serial killer was set to continue on Tuesday using sonar to scan a toxic lake in Mitsero...
Sacked chief blames parties for many of police force’s problems
Former police chief Zacharias Chrysostomou urged the public on Monday to trust the force and blamed political parties for many of the problems it faces....
