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Police investigating the fatal stabbing of a 51-year-old British man in Pegeia arrested a third person Tuesday as they worked to establish how he ended up bleeding in the passenger seat of a car.
The 35-year-old woman, a foreign national who lives permanently in Cyprus, was arrested under a court warrant, according to initial reports. Investigators are looking into whether she drove the man after he was stabbed and what happened before emergency crews reached him.
Police said they received a report at about 6:30 p.m. Monday that an injured man was in a car on Vatudion Street. An ambulance took him to Paphos General Hospital, where doctors found a wound on his right side, between his chest and abdomen. He died a short time later.
Earlier Tuesday, the Paphos District Court ordered a 20-year-old man and his 42-year-old mother held for eight days while police investigate the death. The lead investigator, Plastiras Simillidis, told the court that the younger man had acknowledged stabbing the 51-year-old but said he had stepped in to protect his mother.
According to the account presented in court, the 20-year-old said he heard an argument in the kitchen and saw his mother’s partner threatening her with a knife. He told investigators he intervened and stabbed the man in the ribs. Police are investigating the death as a suspected premeditated murder.
The third arrest is attributed to the update you supplied. The police statement I found covers the first two arrests.
