Posts tagged with "Murder"

BBC show to review case of Cypriot woman hanged for murder Crime

BBC show to review case of Cypriot woman hanged for murder

March 21st, 20193049 An episode of the BBC documentary series ‘Mystery and my Family’ that is scheduled to air on Tuesday, March 26 will bring to life the gruesome crime story of Cypriot Styllou Pantopiou-Christofi, who was hanged in Britain’s Holloway prison in 1954 after being found guilty of murdering her...
Severe schizophrenic who killed father to be hospitalised Crime

Severe schizophrenic who killed father to be hospitalised

February 18th, 20191924 The Larnaca criminal court in Monday said that its decision to admit a 34-year-old man accused of killing his father last April to the state psychiatric hospital after he was diagnosed with severe schizophrenia did not mean that the defendant was acquitted of his charges. The court ruled that George Steve Ioannou, who faces the charge...
One of double-murder defendants changes plea Crime

One of double-murder defendants changes plea

February 8th, 20191843 One of the defendants in the double murder trial on Friday changed her plea to one of the lesser charges and also hired a new lawyer. Sarah Shams, 21, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit robbery and also told the court she was changing her representation. Her lawyer up to that point, Sotiris Argyrou, said the reason for the...
Four suspects in deadly Nicosia fire case due in court Crime

Four suspects in deadly Nicosia fire case due in court

February 1st, 20191567 Police have now arrested four people in connection with a fire that led to the death of a 42-year-old Ukranian woman in Nicosia. They are expected in court later on Friday. Shortly before 3am on Wednesday a café /restaurant on the ground floor of a building on Costakis Pantelides street in Nicosia was torched. The fire also caused an...
Man admits to killing and setting pensioner on fire Crime

Man admits to killing and setting pensioner on fire

January 30th, 20193668 A 21-year-old man was remanded on Wednesday for eight days after admitting to attacking and killing 76-year-old Giorgos Mavrommatis last Sunday and setting the victim’s house on fire to destroy evidence. Mavrommatis was initially thought to have died after fire broke out in his Larnaca home last Sunday, but the results of the...
Murder suspects had large amount of cash, drugs Crime

Murder suspects had large amount of cash, drugs

January 26th, 20193255 The police have secured evidence showing that two of the three brothers currently in custody for the premeditated murder of 44-year-old Christos Michail in Limassol were in possession of a large sum of money and a quantity of drugs following the murder. The interrogators of the case are confident that Michail’s killers took a large...
No trace of murder victim’s mobile phone Cyprus

No trace of murder victim’s mobile phone

January 15th, 20194425 Police found more than €4,000 in cash on 44-year-old Christos Mihail, who was found dead in a car on Monday afternoon in Kato Polemidia in Limassol, but his mobile phone that could provide important clues was nowhere to be found, reports said on Tuesday. Investigations into the premeditated murder of Mihail, who was reportedly...
Suspected murder in Limassol (Update 2) Crime

Suspected murder in Limassol (Update 2)

January 14th, 20194846 A 44-year-old man was found dead in his car with a bullet wound to the chest on Monday afternoon in Ayios Silas in Limassol, the victim of a suspected murder. A woman passer-by spotted the body of the man in his car at around 3pm in a field near the Limassol general hospital, and alerted the police. The 44-year-old was found dead with...
Man who shot dead his son, 19, has prison sentence raised Crime

Man who shot dead his son, 19, has prison sentence raised

January 11th, 20193532 The supreme court on Friday raised the prison sentence of a man who killed his son from 10 to 15 years, finding it was inadequate under the circumstances. Timoleon Themistocleous, 73, was sentenced to 10 years in jail for shooting dead his 19-year-old son Odysseas with a hunting shotgun during a heated argument over the use of a car...
Inquest held into George Low murder, judge to rule later   Crime

Inquest held into George Low murder, judge to rule later  

November 30th, 20182074 By Evie Andreou An inquest into the cause of death of George Low, the 22-year-old British man who was stabbed in August 2016 in Ayia Napa, took place on Friday at the Paralimni court. No date was set for the judge to issue his findings. Present at the hearing were also the parents of the 22-year-old, Martyn and Helen Low, from...
Napa murder suspects released Cyprus

Napa murder suspects released

November 23rd, 20182344 Four suspects arrested in connection with the killing, in Ayia Napa early this month, of Gary Christodoulou have been released. The four had been remanded for eight days on November 16 but were released on Thursday evening because no evidence was found tying them to the murder. The four men, aged 27, 36, 44 and 35 have denied any...
Media violated ethics code in child killing case, watchdog says Cyprus

Media violated ethics code in child killing case, watchdog says

November 22nd, 20181696 The media ethics committee said Thursday that news outlets had violated the ethics code and were prejudiced and racist among others, when reporting the recent killing of a nine-year-old girl by her brother, 13. In a written statement, the committee said the media violated the presumption of innocence by declaring the 13-year-old...
Suspect admits to killing woman, 56, police say (Updated) Crime

Suspect admits to killing woman, 56, police say (Updated)

November 21st, 20181612 A 40-year-old man held on suspicion of killing a woman earlier this month has admitted the crime, police said on Wednesday. The man was arrested on November 12 in connection with the stabbing murder of Yiannoula Hadjiyianni, 56, in the village of Ikos in the Marathasa area of the Nicosia district. Police told the court on Wednesday...
Blood spatter found on murder suspect's clothes, court hears (updated) Cyprus

Blood spatter found on murder suspect's clothes, court hears (updated)

November 13th, 20182611 A 40-year-old man detained in connection with the murder of a woman, 56, in the village of Ikos had blood spatter on his clothes, police told a court on Tuesday. The Georgian man, who was remanded in custody for eight days, was arrested after Yiannoula Hadjiyianni was found stabbed to death in her car at around 1.15pm on Monday. He...
Police investigating woman's murder (update 2) Cyprus

Police investigating woman's murder (update 2)

November 12th, 20185653 A 56-year-old woman was stabbed to death in her car on Monday in what police believe had been a robbery-motivated crime in the small village of Ikos, in the Marathasa region. Police said they were questioning a 40-year-old foreign national who was arrested hours after Yiannoula Hadjiyianni was found dead in her car with stab wounds to...
Boy in psychiatric hospital after sister stabbed to death (Updated) Crime

Boy in psychiatric hospital after sister stabbed to death (Updated)

November 7th, 20184991 A 13-year-old boy who allegedly killed his nine-year-old sister after stabbing her 15 times on Tuesday afternoon in Larnaca has been admitted to the Athalassa psychiatric hospital in Nicosia, it emerged on Wednesday. Police would not confirm the reports and said they would not make any statements concerning the case owing to its...
Family say murder case of mistaken identity Crime

Family say murder case of mistaken identity

November 6th, 20183697 Police on Tuesday were still in the dark over the murder of a 33-year-old man in Ayia Napa on Thursday night, as his family suggested it could have been a case of mistaken identity. Gary Christodoulou was found dead with two bullets to his head and one to the chest in an acacia grove around 100 metres from his silver Mercedes, which...
Remand renewed for murder suspect Crime

Remand renewed for murder suspect

November 5th, 20181715 A court in the north on Monday renewed for another eight days the remand of Fatih Cikrikci, who is believed to have brutally stabbed to death his ex-girlfriend, Gulbahar Ulutan, 13 times on October 31. Authorities also arrested another two men, aged 35 and 39, who are believed to have helped Cikrikci escape after murdering Ulutan at...
British murder suspect to be extradited Cyprus

British murder suspect to be extradited

October 26th, 20182289 A Briton wanted in the UK for murder who was hiding out in the north was told by the Nicosia district court that he would be extradited back to the UK, reports said on Friday. The extradition will take place within the next 10 days. “We have no grounds to appeal. He will be extradited to Britain where the judicial system is known...
Man who shot his son suing over injuries sustained after the killing Crime

Man who shot his son suing over injuries sustained after the killing

October 11th, 20183846 A 74-year-old man who is behind bars for killing his son in 2015 is demanding, through a civil action, compensation of €2 million for injuries sustained when his older son tried to disarm him after the shooting. Timoleon Themistokleous, from the village of Paramytha in Limassol, brought the civil action before the Limassol district...
No joy for British MP seeking answers in Low murder Crime

No joy for British MP seeking answers in Low murder

September 20th, 20182676 One of the suspects in the murder of George Low taunting family on social media By Elias Hazou A BRITISH MP, seeking explanations on why no one has been brought to book over the 2016 brutal murder of his constituent George Low, was in Cyprus this week, but appears to have got only verbal assurances from the British High Commission...
Turkish Cypriot police still trying to identify suspects in Limassol murder Cyprus

Turkish Cypriot police still trying to identify suspects in Limassol murder

September 14th, 20182821 Authorities in the north are trying to verify the identity of four men they arrested last month who are believed to be among the suspects involved in the assassination in Limassol last February of 47-year-old Ernesto Leonides, it was reported on Friday. The four men - who look like some of the men suspected of being involved in the...
Police investigate murder of Sri Lankan man in Limassol Crime

Police investigate murder of Sri Lankan man in Limassol

September 4th, 20182249 Police are investigating a case of murder in Limassol after they found a 45-year-old Sri Lankan national had died at a residence early on Tuesday morning. Officers headed to the scene after receiving the information about an injured man at around 2am. He was dead when they and an ambulance arrived. First investigations showed the...
Riddington to remain in custody until trial Cyprus

Riddington to remain in custody until trial

August 24th, 20183099   Turkish Cypriot newspaper Havadis on Friday reported that Charles Edward Riddington, wanted in the UK for murder, will remain in custody until his trial in less than a month. The decision was taken by a judge when he appeared before the court in the north on Thursday after a three-day remand. In the meantime, the paper...
Accused killer of Iowa college student appears in court Americas

Accused killer of Iowa college student appears in court

August 23rd, 20181141 A 24-year-old farm worker accused of killing an Iowa college student who vanished while jogging made a first court appearance on Wednesday as the case reignited a national debate over illegal immigration and crime. Cristhian Rivera, who was led into Poweshiek County Court handcuffed and dressed in black-and-white striped prison...
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