Pafos Live 5 July 2024
The sum of €6,500 was received by members of the Warrant Collection Unit of the Pafos Police Authority in the context of an operation to execute warrants, which were pending in the area of the villages of Stroumbi and Panagia in the Pafos district
According to Paphos Assistant Police Director of Operations Michalis Nicolaou, the operation took place yesterday in the Paphos district between 07:00 and 14:00.
During the campaign, Nicolaou told CNA, a number of warrants were executed and the sum of €6,500 was collected. These campaigns will continue at regular intervals, he concluded.
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Filenews
A 25-year-old man was detained in the Paphos district to facilitate investigations into an investigated case of driving under the influence of alcohol, dangerous and reckless driving, and possession of an offensive instrument.
According to Pafos Assistant Police Director of Operations, Michalis Nicolaou, on July 4 at around 22:50 members of the Pafos Traffic Police intercepted a car in the tourist area of Geroskipou beach, which was being driven dangerously, manoeuvring and endangering persons using the said road, while the car lights were off.
It was determined that the driver was a 25-year-old man. He underwent a breathalyzer test with an initial reading of 85mg while the permissible limit is 22 Μg. The final alcohol reading was 68Mg.
Furthermore, searches of his vehicle found a folding bat and he was arrested for a flagrant offence.
The 25-year-old also had outstanding warrants for a fine of €700 and was re-arrested and detained.
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The ICF of Limassol proceeded to the arrest of an 18-year-old man in connection with robberies committed against motorcyclists using a fire extinguisher.
The 18-year-old was arrested on suspicion of 3 robbery cases and under questioning confessed to committing the offences.
Two more people are being sought in the case.
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A fire broke out around 4:00 in the morning on Friday (05/07) in a vehicle in Polemidia. Police forces rushed to the scene for examinations.
The cause of the fire is being investigated, however at first sight it appears to have been malicious.
According to police, the vehicle belongs to a 64-year-old man and has been used by his 34-year-old son in recent years.
The vehicle was extensively damaged. Police investigations are ongoing.
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The 45-year-old, who on June 25 allegedly murdered Charalambos Konstantinidis, 52, from Paralimni in a car paint shop, was charged with premeditated murder before the Dhekelia British Bases Court.
The defendant's lawyer asked for time to answer whether or not he pleads guilty. The Court asked in the next proceedings set for July 17, that the defendant answer whether he wishes to be tried by the British Bases or by a Court of the Republic of Cyprus.
If he chooses the latter, then he will answer the charge he faces before the Assize Court. According to filenews, the 45-year-old admitted in a written statement to the commission of the savage murder, which followed a verbal confrontation between the two over a financial dispute.
In his testimony, he reportedly said he first fired twice at the victim and then hit her with an iron on the head and other parts of the body. It is recalled that the testimony in the possession of the British Bases states that the 52-year-old persistently demanded from the 45-year-old an amount of about €300.
Konstantinidis occasionally worked at the car paint shop of the 45-year-old confessed attacker and the money from the financial dispute that sparked the fight between them was wages he allegedly owed him. The murder was committed on the evening of Tuesday, June 25, at a car paint shop in Ormidia. BB Police were alerted by a local resident at 10 p.m. that they heard two gunshots.
The witness went to the car paint shop and testified that he saw the victim lying on the ground in a pool of blood and the suspect near the scene. Patrol cars were at the scene in 15 minutes, however, the suspect fled in a car that was in the garage.
The perpetrator even tried to cover up the crime and remove blood and other evidence from the scene with a water hose.
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Cyprus Mail
A 69-year-old Greek Cypriot man was sentenced to four months in jail in the north on Thursday after having been convicted of sexually assaulting a hitchhiker he had picked up in his car.
Judge Jale Erguden recalled the sequence of events of the crime, explaining that the man had picked up a 20-year-old male hitchhiker while driving on the Near East Boulevard outside of northern Nicosia, before grabbing the hitchhiker’s hands and then “placed his genitals on the hitchhiker’s trousers”.
This, Erguden said, was done “without the victim’s consent” and “in a sexual manner”.
The victim filed a report with the north’s police, and the man was intercepted at the Ledras Street crossing point 10 days after the crime was committed, where Turkish Cypriot police arrested him after a struggle.
Police had said at the time that he did not admit to the crimes during questioning, and the man’s lawyer had said his client had been “beaten”.
Erguden said on Thursday said the punishment handed out must be a “deterrent” and said she had also taken into account the fact that the man’s victim was young and had come to the north to study.
She added that she had also taken into consideration the man’s advanced age and the fact that he, as a Greek Cypriot, would be serving his sentence in the north, and then announced she had sentenced him to four months behind bars.
