#Murder

A 50-year-old man accused of murdering his brother-in-law last summer in Peyia was sentenced to 25 years in prison by the Paphos criminal court on Friday, Paphos deputy head of operations ...

Paphos criminal court will pass sentence next week on man who on Tuesday admitted to the charge of manslaughter after shooting his brother-in-law in July. The 50-year-old will be sentenced ...

A 48-year-old man was on Tuesday found guilty in the north of having fatally stabbed 40-year-old Vietnamese national Dam Thi Hop 33 times. Later on Tuesday afternoon, he was sentenced to 39 ...

A 50-year-old man accused of murdering his brother-in-law last summer in Peyia has pleaded guilty to the charge of murder. The admission came on Friday before the Paphos criminal court. ...

A former Russian MP has been sentenced to 18 years in jail for masterminding the murder of three Russian nationals in Peyia in 2004. The decision at a St Petersburg court on ...

Lawyer Theophanis Andreou on Wednesday slammed the health minister for his handling of the suspension of state pathologist Nicholas Charalambous over the Potamia fatal shooting case. “The minister was completely ...

Police have handed in the report requested by the health ministry, after the coroner had initially ruled out foul play when a Pakistani was found dead in a plot in ...

The suspect in a murder case committed on July 3 in Peyia on his brother-in-law is to answer the charges at the Paphos Criminal Court on January 31. The 50-year-old, who had ...

The remand order against a woman accused of stabbing her husband to death with a kitchen knife was renewed on Sunday for a further four days. Ukrainian Vitaly Shostak, 62, was ...

A 63-year-old woman was remanded in custody on Saturday on suspicion of having stabbed her husband to death with a kitchen knife. She reportedly denies having committed the crime and ...

Two defendants charged for the double murder in Arakapas earlier this year pleaded not guilty on Friday to premeditated murder. Appearing at Limassol criminal court, the two defendants, aged 19 and 23, ...

Three people were handed life sentences on Tuesday for their parts in the murder of 34-year-old Demetris Andronikou. The trio, 30-year-old Omar Suleyman, 28-year-old Mohammad Al Agka, and 26-year-old Mohammad ...

The man suspected of killing UnitedHealth UNH.N executive Brian Thompson in a brazen shooting outside a midtown Manhattan hotel last week has been arrested, New York City officials said ...

A man suspected of having committed a murder in the United Kingdom appeared in court in the north on Tuesday after evidence emerged linking him with the crime. He is ...

Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian mass murderer behind the country’s worst peacetime atrocity, should not be released and remains dangerous, a prosecutor said, as Breivik appeared in court on ...

Sefer Bugra Altundag, the man who killed 16-year-old Zehie Helin Reessur in January last year, was sentenced to life in prison in court in Trikomo on Friday. Altundag had been ...

The man driving the motorcycle carrying the shooter in the murder of 34-year-old Demetris Andronikou in April was on Friday sentenced to life in prison by the Nicosia criminal court. ...

Yiasser Arar, 40, told the criminal court on Tuesday that he took part in the murder plot against 34-year-old Demetris Andronikou as he owed a personal debt. Sentence will be passed ...

Zisan Saltukhan, the mother of 16-year-old Cypriot girl Zehie Helin Reessur, who was murdered in January last year, on Thursday demanded the “harshest punishment” for her daughter’s killer. Speaking ...

Police on Sunday afternoon arrested the convicted murderer who has been on the run since Thursday after he was spotted on the Limassol sea front. He was arrested at around 5.30...

Authorities in the north were informed immediately when it was realised that convicted murderer Doros Theofanous had escaped prison guards on Thursday and was on the run, informed sources told ...

The convict with a life sentence who managed to slip away from police is armed, unlikely to give himself in and has a plan to travel to Colombia via the ...

Police on Thursday arrested two persons in connection with the escape of a prison inmate, while authorities remained on high alert as the convict remained at large. The escapee was ...

A 42-year-old man on Tuesday admitted to the pre-meditated murder of Demetris Andronikou, also known as Demetroui in a gangland shooting in April. The defendant, a Syrian national, made the ...