Police chief stands by officers in Metaxas case
Police chief Kypros Michaelides said on Wednesday he will support the 15 officers who are facing prosecution over the handling of the Metaxas serial killing...
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AG’s office confirms grounds for criminal charges against 15 officers in serial killer case (updated)
Fifteen police officers will be prosecuted over the handling of a number of cases of missing women and children who later turned up murdered by...
One year since serial killer’s first victim located ‘a reminder’ of need to protect women
The Green Party on Thursday said the first anniversary since the disappearance of five women and two children unfolded with the gradual discovery of their...
Report into police activity over missing women to be handed over Thursday
The independent police watchdog’s report into the force’s handling of several women reported missing who became victims of a serial killer is due to be...
Probe into police handling of missing victims of serial killer ready next month
The findings of a probe into the way the police handled the disappearances of several women and two girls who became the victims of a...
Cyprus’ serial killings to be portrayed in Philippines docudrama
An award-winning weekly drama series in the Philippines, ‘Tadhana’ will feature two special episodes based on the serial murders in Cyprus which were uncovered in...
Funeral held for another of Metaxas’ victims
A funeral service was held Thursday for one of the victims of serial killer Nicos Metaxas who claimed the lives of five women and two...
Bill comes due for locating serial killer’s victims in red lake
The cost of paying a private company to trawl the Mitsero red lake for the bodies of three of the victims of serial killer Nicos...
Probe into possible police lapses in missing women cases due soon, chief says
Police chief Kypros Michaelides on Tuesday praised the people who helped expose the crimes of 35-year-old serial killer Nicos Metaxas and helped locate his seven...
Two of serial killer’s victims buried in Philippines
The remains of two women killed by serial killer Nicos Metaxas in Cyprus arrived in the Philippines on Saturday evening, media in the Philippines reported....
Funerals held for two more of serial killer’s victims
Funeral services were held on Thursday for Mary Rose Tiburcio and Maricar Valdez Arquila, two of the seven victims of confessed serial killer Nicos Metaxas....
Stelios foundation donates to families of serial killer’s victims, seeks relatives of two
Financial aid of €50.000 has been paid to the families of five of the seven victims of serial killer Nicos Metaxas by the Stelios Philanthropic...
In address to Filipinos, president slams authorities’ ‘casual and careless approach’ to missing persons
Any failure by Cypriot authorities to properly investigate cases of missing persons, which in seven instances at least, led to murder by a serial killer,...
‘I strangled Sierra while thinking of the Greek genocide of 1922’ (Update 2)
The gruesome details behind the seven murders of serial killer Nicos Metaxas, as told to police during interrogation, were heard at the Nicosia criminal court’s...
Five consecutive life sentences, plus two concurrent for serial killer (Updated)
The Nicosia criminal court on Monday sentenced Cyprus’ first recorded serial killer to seven life sentences, five consecutive and two concurrent, bringing to an end...
Serial killer trial to start on Monday
The self-confessed serial killer of five women and two girls was on Friday referred to a direct trial at the Nicosia criminal court, set to...
Self-confessed serial killer set to be charged
The 35-year-old man who has confessed to murdering five women and two children is expected to be charged in Nicosia district court on Friday morning....
Stelios Foundation donates money to families of murder victims
The Stelios Philanthropic Foundation is offering €70,000 to the families of the seven women and children murdered by a serial killer, the non-profit organisation announced...
Cabinet green lights financial support for children of serial killer’s victims
The cabinet on Tuesday decided to provide monetary assistance to the children of the women murdered by a self-confessed serial killer, a case that surfaced...
Mother and daughter victims of serial killer buried in Nicosia
Friends and relatives of murder victims Livia Bunea and her daughter Elena Natalia, 8, and also members of the search and rescue crews who found...
