#Murder

Convicted murderer ‘The Hairdresser’ was jailed for three years on Tuesday after escaping lawful custody in a case that led to the sacking of Cyprus’ police chief and other senior ...

The permanent criminal court of Paphos will announce its sentence on July 8 for convicted murderer Doros Theofanous, known as “the hairdresser”, who escaped from custody last year. The court heard ...

The House human rights committee on Monday held a charged session that lasted more than three hours, focusing on the death of 26-year-old national guardsman Thanasis Nicolaou, following the recent ...

The criminal case against a policeman who was found to be leaking information to murdered gang member Demetris Andronikou was dropped on Wednesday, with the policeman returning to work. According ...

A 41-year-old man who was wanted in Jordan in connection with a murder has been arrested in Paphos, the police said on Thursday. The Jordanian authorities had informed the Cypriot ...

Forty-six-year-old Costas Soteriou was on Tuesday sentenced to 28 years in prison at the court on the British base of Dhekelia for the murder of Charalambos Constantinides. He was handed a “...

The Dutch police have announced that they are looking for a second suspect in connection with the murder of Cemil Onal, the man who made allegations of a deep money-laundering ...

The remands of a 52-year-old man and a 47-year-old woman who were arrested last week on suspicion of the murder of 45-year-old Yiannis Argyrou were renewed on Tuesday. The pair ...

The Dutch police have made public a photograph of the man they suspect of having murdered Cemil Onal, the man who made allegations of a deep money-laundering and smuggling network ...

A 52-year-old man has confessed to killing Yiannis Argyrou who was found dead on Sunday, admitting to the stabbing during a drug-fuelled night in a private garage in Limassol, police ...

Two people were arrested late Sunday afternoon in what police said was a murder case after a man’s dead body was found outside an apartment building in the Neapolis ...

Police arrested a 57-year-old man as a premeditated murder suspect on Sunday, after an altercation with another 66-year-old man at a cafe outside Nicosia turned violent. The victim, Andreas Michaelides ...

Seven individuals are now the focus of legal action in the long-running murder case of Thanasis Nicolaou, as the victim’s family presses ahead with private criminal prosecutions over what ...

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, ...