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...
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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...
Evidence presented at Charlie Birch trial
The murder trial of a case which led to the death of Briton Robert James Birch in Paphos in June 2018 resumed on Tuesday morning,...
Second woman’s body found in mine shaft, search continues for missing child (Update 8)
CYPRUS was reeling on Saturday when a second decomposed body of a naked and bound adult woman was pulled from the same mine shaft in...
Police say close to solving Mitsero mine murder
Police said on Friday night they were close to solving the murder of a 39-year-old woman whose daughter, six, was missing, as reports said officers...
Two more arrests in Mitsero murder (Updated)
TWO more persons were arrested Thursday in connection with investigations into the death of a 39-year-old woman from the Philippines, whose body was found in...
Police search mine for traces of murder victim’s daughter, suspect remanded
Authorities on Wednesday were searching a mine in Mitsero for traces of a six-year-old girl whose mother was found dead there, in a well on...
Son of double murder victims was terrified says neighbour
The neighbour of the 15-year-old boy who sought refuge at her house after his parents were killed in a botched robbery in Strovolos last April...