Double murder defendant gets four years in jail (Updated)
One of the defendants in the Strovolos double murder case was on Thursday sentenced to four years in jail on a single charge of conspiracy...
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Man jailed for abusing stepdaughter
A 50-year-old man from Nicosia was sentenced on Thursday to seven years in prison for each of the 68 charges he was found guilty of...
Two sentenced for smuggling cocaine
Two foreign nationals aged 64 and 50, were sentenced by Larnaca Criminal Court on Thursday to eight years in prison each after admitting to smuggling...
Former Bank of Cyprus CEO sentenced to 2.5 years (Updated)
Former CEO of the Bank of Cyprus Andreas Eliades was sentenced on Friday to 2.5 years in prison while the lender itself was slapped with...
Rapist sentenced to eight years
A court in Larnaca on Thursday sentenced Costas Karamani, 27 from Tsakkilero village to eight years imprisonment for the abduction and rape of a 42-year-old...
Cut in rape sentence causes shock, outrage
A SUPREME Court decision to reduce the jail term of two men found guilty of raping a 50-year-old woman unleashed a wave of anger on...
Iraqi-Kurd sentenced to life for murdering his mother in Dhekelia
A British bases court in Dhekelia on Monday handed down a life sentence to Amil Aziz, 22, an Iraqi of Kurdish origin for the murder...
Larnaca man gets two years for spate of arson attacks
A 32-year-old man from Larnaca, Valentino Alamango was sentenced to two years in prison on Tuesday after he was found guilty of arson and attempting...
Greek man jailed for three years in child sexual abuse case
Larnaca district court on Thursday sentenced to prison a 40-year-old man having found him guilty of sexually abusing an underage girl. The man, a Greek...
Suspended sentence for dog shelter owner who set animals alight
A Larnaca court has given a two-month suspended prison sentence to a man who was supposed to run a shelter for dogs for the municipality...
Ankle monitors in the works for certain categories of convict
A legislative proposal recently approved by the cabinet calls for the introduction of ankle monitors for convicts serving part of their term under house arrest....
Sentences of three and a half to nine years in Dromolaxia case (Update 2: adds judge’s comments)
By Constantinos Psillides THE Larnaca Criminal Court issued a final verdict on the Dromolaxia scandal on Monday, jailing all five guilty parties on various charges...
Twenty years for wife killer
By Constantinos Psillides Giorgos Kyriakides, 35, was sentenced on Wednesday by the Criminal Court to 20 years in jail for the murder of his wife...
Fifty-six inmates get early release
Fifty-six convicts will be immediately released after their sentences were commuted by President Nicos Anastasiades to ease overpopulation and promote a correctional policy that contributes...
Cleveland abductor Castro defiant as he gets life in prison
By Kim Palmer The Cleveland school bus driver who abducted, imprisoned and repeatedly raped three women was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison without...
Aunt sentenced to one year for kidnapping
Limassol Criminal Court sentenced a 35-year-old woman to one year in jail on Wednesday for the abduction of her 18-month old nephew. The court, which had found...
Russian opposition leader Navalny sentenced to five years jail
By Gabriela Baczynska Russian protest leader Alexei Navalny was sentenced to five years in jail for theft on Thursday, an unexpectedly tough punishment which his...
