Husband sought after woman killed in front of her children (Update 3)
A 31-year-old Syrian woman who was found dead in Paphos on Monday was stabbed while three of her seven children were at home. Police are...
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Father of South African Cypriot wife killer shot dead
The Greek Cypriot father of wife killer Christopher Panayiotou was shot dead early on Monday outside a fast-food restaurant in Uitenhage town, South Africa. The...
Man jailed for life for murdering woman with knife
A 40-year-old man was jailed for life on Tuesday for the murder of a woman, 56, in Ikos Marathasas, Nicosia, in November last year. Giorgi...
Interpol appeals for help tracking down Cypriot killer on day marking violence against women
Coinciding with the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Interpol on Monday appealed for help to track down eight men wanted around...
Institutionalised teen who killed his sister allowed home
The 14-year-old boy who last year stabbed to death his nine-year-old sister in their Larnaca house, was sent back home after a year at the...
Supreme court rejects sentence reduction for man who shot son
The supreme court on Wednesday rejected a second appeal for a sentence reduction by a 74-year-old man who is behind bars for killing his 19-year-old...
Murder investigation after man ran over by car (Updated)
A 34-year-old man suspected of premeditated murder was remanded for eight days on Friday in Nicosia. He had already been remanded for eight days for...
Suspected killer of Cypriot woman held over for trial in Australia
A Queensland court on Wednesday ordered the four-week detention of 34-year-old Bradley Edwards, who is suspected of murdering 26-year-old Ioli Hadjilyra in a park in...
Aussie police arrest 34-year-old in connection to Ioli’s death (updated)
Queensland Police have charged 34-year-old Bradley Edwards for the murder of 26-year-old Greek Cypriot Ioli Hadjilyra in Brisbane, Australia, whose lifeless body was found in...
Suspect in murder of Turkish Cypriot businessman remanded
A man wanted for the murder of Turkish Cypriot businessman Gökhan Naim, 52, was remanded on Saturday for three days by a court in the...
Mother who killed her son 12, committed to psychiatric hospital
A 40-year-old woman suspected of stabbing her son, 12, to death in Nicosia on Thursday has been committed to a psychiatric hospital for treatment, police...
Woman kills her child, tries to kill herself (Update 2)
A 40-year-old woman stabbed her son, 12, to death and tried to take her own life inside a second-floor flat in Yeri, Nicosia police said...
Suspect in Briton’s death admits to reckless driving, manslaughter and murder off the table
A 35-year-old man on Tuesday admitted to causing the death of a British tourist and injuring another in Peyia last year and abandoning them after...
Body of man found in car boot parked near school in north
The body of a man was found in the trunk of a car in the north of Nicosia on Monday afternoon. The dead man is...
The murders of 37 women over the past 19 years ‘could have been prevented’ MPs hear
In total, 37 women have been killed in Cyprus during the last 19 years, the majority by a former or current partner, but most of...
Eight years for matricide
A 43-year-old man was Thursday sentenced to eight years in jail after being found guilty of causing his mother’s death over a year ago. Limassol...
Murder trial of four men set for September
Four Georgian nationals, three of them suspected of being the hitmen that killed Ernest Leonides, 47, in 2018 in Limassol, were referred on Friday for...
Supreme court overturns manslaughter verdict in Limassol killings, cites premeditation
The supreme court on Wednesday accepted the attorney-general’s appeal against the initial decision of the Limassol criminal court which ruled that the killing of three...
Two sides exchange murder suspects
Suspects wanted in connection with two murders on both sides of the divide were exchanged on Thursday between the south and north of the island...
Self-confessed serial killer re-remanded, post mortem on latest victim finds neck contusion (Updated)
The retrieval of a third body from the red lake in Mitsero earlier in the week justified the seventh remand of self-confessed serial-killer Nicos Metaxas...
