Man shot dead in Kiti (Updated)
A 37-year-old man was shot and killed in Kiti on Monday night. The killing took place at around 9.30pm in Kiti near Larnaca and involved...
Murder
Man admits to murdering woman found in field last month
A 32-year-old man, the main suspect for the murder of a woman whose body was found last month in a field in the Athienou buffer...
Bloody clothing found by police may link to murder investigation
Police investigating the murder of woman have found a suitcase with bloody clothing in a plot near the residence of one of the suspects, reports...
Three held for woman’s murder re-remanded by Nicosia court
Nicosia district court on Thursday renewed for another eight days the remand of three men held in connection with the murder of a woman whose...
Three men remanded on suspicion of murdering woman found in field
Three men were remanded in custody for eight days on suspicion of murder, police said Wednesday, after the badly decomposed body of an unidentified woman...
Crime in Paphos fell in 2020
Paphos registered a decrease in reported crimes in 2020 compared to the previous year, according to Paphos police spokesperson Michalis Ioannou. Speaking to the Cyprus...
Husband of slain wife and son to stand trial on March 16
A 58-year-old man will stand trial in Nicosia on March 16 for stabbing his wife and son to death and injuring his second son at...
Armed group denies killing Italian ambassador in Congo
An armed group in eastern Congo, accused by the government of carrying out an ambush on a United Nations convoy in which Italy’s ambassador and two other...
Man accused of killing wife and son remanded for further eight days
A court convening at Nicosia general hospital on Saturday renewed a remand order for a man accused of killing his wife and son for another...
Ombudswoman targets official failings in brutal mother and son murders
Ombudswoman Maria Stylianou-Lottides on Saturday expressed her disappointment and sorrow over what she described as the official failure – once again – to properly assess...
Double murder in Nicosia, police arrest suspect (Update 7)
Police on Thursday had in custody a man suspected of stabbing his wife and son to death and injuring his second son earlier in the...
Remand for two more suspects in Chlorakas murder
Two men, 25 and 22, were remanded on Sunday for eight days in connection with the murder of a 20-year-old man in Paphos last April....
Man jailed for murder after sham marriage row
A 26-year-old defendant from India was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Wednesday after he was found guilty of the murder of a 33-year-old...
Two men to stand trial for Limassol murder
Two Lithuanian men were referred to the criminal court on Monday to face trial for the murder of a 36-year-old woman in Limassol in October....
Two suspects further remanded over Limassol murder
Two men from Lithuania were remanded for a further eight days on Sunday in connection with the murder of Iryna Hurskaya, 36, whose body was...
Two murder suspects remanded for eight days
Two suspects, aged 29 and 24, arrested for the murder on Sunday of Iryna Hurskaya, 36, were remanded for eight days by the Limassol district...
Murdered woman was strangled, autopsy shows
The woman found murdered at her Limassol home on Sunday, Iryna Hurskaya, was strangled to death according to a post-mortem examination carried out on Tuesday....
Georgian man gets 17 years for Limassol murder
A Georgian man was jailed for 17 years on Friday after admitting to killing Ernest Leonides, 47, in a restaurant in Limassol in February 2018....
Sham marriage murder suspect remanded in custody
Α 26-year-old Indian man was remanded in custody for eight days on Thursday in connection with the murder of a Romanian national, 33, in July,...
Murder reportedly linked to sham marriage (Updated)
Police on Wednesday opened a premeditated murder investigation reportedly linked to a sham marriage scam after recovering the body of a man missing since July...