https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/officers-named-in-serial-killer-probe
An independent probe into police handling of missing complaints in the serial killer case has been completed, with investigators naming some 20 officers for failing to do their job...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/georgian-man-denies-intent-in-rural-nicosia-murder
A Georgian national who has admitted stabbing a Greek Cypriot woman to death in rural Nicosia last year says it was not premeditated, with a state forensic pathologist insisting the stab wounds say otherwise...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/man-re-arrested-after-ran-over-victim-dies
A Nicosia resident died in hospital on Thursday one week after he was hit by a car in what police believed to be a deliberate attempt linked to illegal drugs...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/mother-kills-young-son-in-south-nicosia
Police are investigating the murder of a 12-year-old boy in Geri, south Nicosia, with media reports saying his injured mother appears to be a primary suspect...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/tzionis-says-he-will-admit-all-charges
Loizos Tzionis, the main defendant in the Strovolos double murder case, pleaded guilty to all charges on Wednesday, during drama in the courtroom as his co-defendant brother was being sentenced to prison on burglary charges...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/brother-gets-six-years-in-strovolos-double-murder-case
A criminal court in Nicosia passed a sentence of six years to Lefteris Solomou, the half-brother of the main defendant in the Strovolos double murder, on burglary charges only...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/sentence-in-strovolos-double-murder-on-hold
A criminal court in Nicosia has sentenced Lefteris Solomou, the half-brother of his co-defendant in the Strovolos double murder, but details were left out due to a scheduled funeral on Wednesday afternoon...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/coral-bay-trial-ends-with-sentence
The man who ran down Charlie Birch in Coral Bay last year has been sentenced to 2.5 years, following a protracted legal battle that had charges reduced twice in the course of the trial...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/shams-slams-tzionis-with-forgotten-detail
The former girlfriend of accused double murderer Loizos Tzionis says the defendant confided in her that he had been planning to rob the Strovolos couple, who were found stabbed to death in their home in April 2018...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/coral-bay-defendant-admits-lesser-charges
The Coral Bay trial resumed Tuesday following a number of procedural delays, with the prosecution introducing three lesser charges against the defendant while the court formally suspended prosecution on two previous counts, manslaughter and premeditated murder...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/legal-department-weighs-in-on-coral-bay-trial
The Coral Bay trial has been pushed back for another week, with reports citing different number delays including instructions from the Legal Department...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/supreme-court-revises-limassol-triple-murder-sentence
Convicted killer Christakis Thoma, who knifed three men in Limassol over three years ago, will serve three consecutive life sentences after the Supreme Court changed his manslaughter sentence to premeditated murder...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/orestis-pleads-guilty-to-murder-charges
Nikos Metaxas was sentenced to life in prison on Monday for the murders of five women and two children, just hours after he pleaded guilty in an unprecedented serial killer case that shocked the public in Cyprus and overseas...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/police-need-more-time-to-prosecute-orestis
Alleged serial killer Nikos Metaxas was remanded for another eight days on Friday, with prosecutors scrambling to build a solid case while trying to minimize the possibility of factual or legal errors...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/new-witnesses-in-coral-bay-trial
The Coral Bay trial resumed this week with a new witness giving his account of what took place on 24 June 2018 just before British tourist Robert James Birch was ran down and killed...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/third-suitcase-found-at-red-lake
Divers located the third suitcase in the red lake believed to contain the remains of an adult Filipina in the serial killer case...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/police-focus-on-new-email-in-orestis-case
Alleged serial killer Nikos Metaxas was remanded in custody for eight more days on Wednesday, as police investigators are looking into a new email address linked to the case...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cypriot-farmer-in-bulgaria-booked-for-murder
A Cypriot farmer in Bulgaria, who is facing premeditated charges in a fatal hit and run over the weekend, says it was an accident...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/police-close-to-wrapping-up-orestis-case
There are still no signs of Maricar and little Sierra as authorities failed to locate their bodies so far, while police say they see no evidence to suggest that Orestis committed more than seven murders...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/coral-bay-trial-still-bogged-down
The Coral Bay manslaughter trial has resumed with the focus still on evidence proceedings, while it remains unclear whether the mother of the victim will be called to testify...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/rape-charges-added-in-serial-killer-case
The serial killer case was back in court on Sunday with suspect Nikos Metaxas remanded in custody on new charges including rape...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/second-body-retrieved-from-red-lake
Divers retrieved another suitcase from the red lake on Sunday, with first indications pointing to the body of a young Romanian girl based on a confession by the alleged serial killer who admitted seven murders...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cops-to-search-mitseros-as-long-as-it-takes
Police are back to the drawing board as an underwater search failed to locate a missing Filipino girl, whose mother and another woman were murdered by a suspected serial killer last year...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/suspect-admits-killing-marry-rose
Leaked reports on Friday night said the 35-year-old suspect has admitted to killing Marry Rose Tiburcio from the Philippines, hours after a shocking day in court and fast-pace police activity in an undisclosed area...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/two-new-arrests-in-filipina-murder-case
Cyprus police arrested two more suspects in connection with the murder of a Filipina woman and the disappearance of her young daughter who is feared dead...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/dewatering-begins-in-search-of-little-girl-in-mitseros
A dewatering operation began Thursday to pump out water from a mine shaft in Mitseros, in search of a 6-year-old girl whose mother’s body was already recovered...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cops-scale-up-search-in-mitseros
Police are searching for the young daughter of a Filipina woman, whose body has been identified by next of kin while the victim’s ex boyfriend and father of the child was placed in custody...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/police-identify-woman-in-mitseros
Police arrested a foreign national in connection with a female corpse that was found two days ago at an abandoned mine in Nicosia, with reports saying she has been identified as a woman from the Philippines...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/coral-bay-trial-resumes
The Coral Bay trial resumed on Tuesday with witness and procedural matters, with a Greek national facing manslaughter charges in the death of 39-year-old Briton Charlie Birch in 2018...
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/multiple-arrests-in-nicosia-downtown-blast
Police have arrested four suspects including a pub owner in connection with an explosion and ensuing fire in downtown Nicosia, where a woman was found dead in her apartment...
