Pafos Live 10/11
During the last hunting expedition, in the checks of the Game Service, in Limassol, 2 complaints were recorded for hunting in a prohibited area, with an out-of-court fine of €3,000 for each case.
In addition, in the same province, 1 complaint was made for hunting without a hunting license, with a fine of €2,000.
In the province of Paphos, 2 complaints were recorded for the presence of dogs in a prohibited area, with a fine of €300 for each case, as well as 2 out-of-court notices for not using an orange vest, amounting to €50 each.
In the province of Paphos, Nicosia and Larnaca, 8 out-of-court notices were issued, while 2 complaints were also recorded for not marking dogs, with a fine of €300 for each case.
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Vandalism was recorded for the second night in a row yesterday in Paphos. This time, as the Mayor of Paphos complained in his morning statements, the still unknown perpetrators acted in the square of the Mouttalos district, destroying part of the Christmas decoration that was placed just a few days ago, while also causing pollution by spraying slogans in public places.
Angelos Onisiforou stressed that this is a very worrying situation, at a time when the municipal authority is trying to maintain, upgrade and beautify the city. And yet, some people come at night and destroy everything they find in front of them, unfortunately not for the first time, he observed.
We are constantly receiving complaints from residents of the Mouttalos area about motorcycles fighting, about nuisance, about damage to public spaces, and even about burning bins, complains the Mayor of Paphos. Residents tell us that they call the Police about these incidents, but in many cases, there is not the expected response. This is something that should seriously concern those in charge.
Mr. Onisiforou clarified that the municipal authority cannot replace the police officers, with each authority having its role and responsibilities, as he said. The time has come to proceed with the installation of cameras in Mouttalos Square and in other parts of the area where such incidents are observed, always in accordance with the provisions of the legislation, he pointed out.
He also asked the Police for a stronger presence in the area, substantial checks and an immediate response to the residents' complaints. The situation in Mouttalos is really tiring, he said characteristically. Residents deserve to feel safe in their neighborhood and to see that their grievances are taken seriously.
It is not possible for the citizens to pay the damages every time and for the same situation to continue, he concluded.
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The presence and action of the Police last night was intense, throughout Cyprus, with organized patrols in key points of urban areas, with the aim of preventing serious criminal acts, ensuring public order and increasing the sense of security of the public.
The result of the preventive police operations was the arrest of four persons for various offenses, including theft, pending arrest warrants, etc.
As part of these operations, during the night, 411 drivers and 120 passengers were stopped and checked. At the same time, 31 inspections of premises were carried out, with the aim of dealing with phenomena of delinquency, where a complaint arose.
During traffic checks carried out, 237 complaints were made, concerning various traffic violations, while five investigated cases of traffic violations also emerged.
Of the complaints made, 62 concerned exceeding the speed limit, while as part of the police examinations, three vehicles were detained.
105 alcohol tests were carried out, from which one complaint emerged, while three drug tests were also carried out, with negative results.
Policing operations, for the prevention and suppression of crime, continue daily, with an increased/enhanced police presence, targeted controls and immediate operational action, with the aim of increasing the sense of security of citizens/protecting citizens and ensuring public order.
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The case of the murder of a man last night in Pegeia is being investigated. As it seems, there is a family quarrel behind the criminal act, with a close relative of the victim having already admitted the facts under interrogation.
From the overnight investigations of the Police, it emerged that the dead is a 51-year-old Briton, a permanent resident of Pegeia, whose residence is just a few hundred meters from the scene. Based on the Police investigations, the events that led to the murder initially unfolded in the residence where the victim lived with his second wife and her 20-year-old son.
As the 20-year-old appears and admits in his testimony, at some point yesterday afternoon he noticed his mother and stepfather fighting intensely and going to the scene claimed to have seen the 51-year-old beating his mother. Then, as he said, he intervened and a fight ensued with his stepfather, who according to the 20-year-old tried to hit him with a knife.
In the fight that followed, the 20-year-old injured the 51-year-old with the knife and then, seeing that the injury was serious, with the help of his mother, as he said, they put his stepfather in the vehicle in order to take him to Paphos Hospital.
A short distance from their home, as the young man testified, they lost control of the vehicle and abandoned it at the point where it was finally located. His mother, as he reported, called the Ambulance Service about the existence of a vehicle with an injured person and both left the scene. In other words, it turns out that the woman who was known from the beginning to inform the authorities by phone about the incident was the victim's wife.
They were located after the identification of the details of the owner of the vehicle, which led to him and his mother. Under interrogation, the 20-year-old admitted the events that led to the murder of his stepfather and both he and his mother were arrested in the early hours of this morning and are expected to be brought to the Paphos district court within the day for the issuance of detention orders.
At the same time, at 10.00 in the morning, the autopsy on the body of the 51-year-old is expected to be performed for the exact causes of death, while the authorities continue the investigations to locate evidence, the main one of which is the murderous instrument.
The information from the Police
As part of the investigation of the case, two persons were arrested today on the basis of court warrants. They are a 42-year-old woman and a 20-year-old man.
Examinations continue by TAE Paphos
Update - The Paphos District Court issued an eight-day detention order for the 42-year-old cohabitant and her 20-year-old son, regarding the murder of the 51-year-old man in Pegeia.
The Police spokesman told the court that another person is being sought to facilitate the investigations. This is the young girlfriend of the 20-year-old, who, based on the tests, seems to have been the driver of the vehicle when mother and son put the injured 51-year-old in the car to take him to the Hospital. According to the spokesman, the possibility that the girl in question panicked when she realized the seriousness of the injured person's condition and abandoned the vehicle at the place where it was located is being examined, while it is being examined which of the two women made the call to the Ambulance Service.
According to what was heard in court and based on what the two suspects said in their testimonies, the victim often had outbursts of bad behaviour due to cocaine use, as they claimed. Something like this, they claimed, happened on the fateful afternoon, while scenes of jealousy towards his 42-year-old partner were also frequent. On Monday afternoon, he demonstrated, according to their testimonies, the same behaviour brandishing a knife, as a result of which the 20-year-old son of the 42-year-old intervened and in the fight that followed injured him in the abdomen.
It is noted, however, that mother and son have so far carefully avoided, according to the Police, to involve a third person in any way in the events of Monday night.
According to the Police spokesman, upon the arrival of the members of the force at the house where the three persons lived, they found blood stains, while the house was visibly just mopped.
Five statements have been taken so far, he said, while another 50 statements are expected to be taken from the victim's family, work and social environment.
The spokesman stressed that because the case is at the initial stage, while another person is being sought, it is considered possible that there will be a distortion of evidence, which is why the Police are requesting their eight-day detention, a request that the court satisfied.
The 20-year-old indicated a location in Akamas where he threw the knife
Meanwhile, in search of the knife with which the murder of the 51-year-old Briton was committed in Pegeia last night, the Police are rushing. After the testimony of the confessed perpetrator in a voluntary statement he gave to the Police, he stated that he threw the knife after committing the murder in the "Kakoskali" location of Akamas.
The 20-year-old son of the victim's 42-year-old partner will lead members of the Police to the peninsula for a while and will indicate to the examiners of the case the place where, as he claims, he threw the lethal instrument. The 20-year-old suspect consented to lead the police to the scene.
In the meantime, as reported to the Paphos District Court by the examiner of the case, the first name of the girlfriend of the confessed perpetrator who is still being sought is Stephanie and comes from Scotland.
What the autopsy showed for the 51-year-old
The death of the 51-year-old Briton in Pegeia is due to haemorrhagic shock, as a result of massive internal bleeding from an aortic injury caused by a cutting and insular instrument.
This was the conclusion of the autopsy carried out in the morgue of the Nicosia General Hospital by the medical examiner Nicolas Charalambous.
During the autopsy, various evidence was taken for toxicological and other scientific examinations.
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The Police arrested a 26-year-old person yesterday, as part of the investigation of a case involving a car arson committed last October in Limassol.
Specifically, around 11:30 p.m., on 24/10/2026, a fire was noticed in a car owned by a company, which was parked on a road in the province of Limassol.
From the examinations carried out, it was found that this was a malicious act, while testimony emerged against a 26-year-old, who was arrested by virtue of a court arrest warrant and was taken into custody to facilitate investigations.
The arrested person is expected to appear before the Court today for the issuance of a detention order.
The TAE Limassol continues the examinations.
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A 56-year-old man will spend four years in prison, who completely burned a car outside a playground in Limassol, using a rental vehicle that was connected to his ex-wife's work. The Criminal Court spoke of a methodical and pre-planned action, pointing out that the convict had shown professionalism in the execution of the arson, while for the determination of the sentence it took into account five more cases in which he had pleaded guilty to serious offenses.
The announcement is as follows
The Permanent Criminal Court of Limassol today imposed a 4-year prison sentence on a 56-year-old defendant, who admitted a charge of arson. According to the facts of the case, the Defendant deliberately and illegally in the early morning hours of 25/3/2026 set fire to a motor vehicle, worth €6,000, which was parked in a parking lot near a playground. The Defendant went to the place with a rental vehicle, owned by a company where his ex-wife worked, and doused the above vehicle with flammable material while also creating an incendiary strip in which he set fire.
The scene was visited by members of the Limassol Police Department and the Fire Service who, with the use of official equipment, managed to extinguish the fire. It was found that the fire in the car had been deliberately and maliciously set with the use of flammable material, with the aim of completely destroying the vehicle, which was achieved. The action of the Accused was recorded by CCTV cameras.
For the purpose of imposing a sentence, five other cases were taken into account in which the Defendant admitted charges for the offense of assault causing actual bodily harm, committed on 18.2.2019, interference in judicial proceedings and threat, committed on 25.5.2020, causing grievous bodily harm, threatening, entering another person's property and exercising violence in the family, committed on 26.4.2022, illegal possession of class A and B controlled drugs, illegal use of a class A controlled drug and smoking of a cannabis plant, which were committed during the period 28 – 29.10.2024, and theft, entry into foreign property for the purpose of committing a criminal offense and malicious damage, which were committed on 24.8.2025.
In determining the sentence, the Criminal Court emphasized the seriousness of the overall criminal behavior of the Accused, which causes insecurity to the citizens who become victims of such actions and not only, stressing that the imposition of a deterrent and severe penalty is required.
The Criminal Court stated that the actions of the Accused were methodical and pre-planned and demonstrated the professionalism with which he acted. He further took into account the extent of the damage and the complete destruction that the accused caused to the vehicle, ignoring the consequences and risks involved in his act. In that regard, he held that his act could not be justified on the basis of suspicion of committing an offence against him, considering his rash recourse to the crime instead of appealing to the competent authorities unacceptable, as well as on the basis of grief he felt for the loss of a close friend, completely unrelated to the incident.
The Criminal Court further emphasized that the other cases that the accused admitted and were taken into account concerned serious offenses, judging that the entire criminal behavior of the accused made it necessary to impose a dissuasive penalty.
For the benefit of the accused, his personal and family circumstances, his admission, his clean criminal record and his intention to compensate the victim were taken into account.
The case against a co-defendant of the accused was set for a hearing at a later date.
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The rims of his car, which he had painted black, were allegedly not counted by the 26-year-old who is under the microscope of the Police for the arson of a rental vehicle in Agios Tychonas. The investigators of the Limassol Police Department estimate that they located the vehicle used in the criminal act, through the evaluation of dozens of recordings from closed surveillance circuits. A decisive element was the special characteristics of the vehicle, but also the original color of its rims.
The 26-year-old from Syria was arrested and brought before the Limassol District Court, which ordered his seven-day detention to facilitate investigations. The offenses of conspiracy to commit a felony and arson, which were committed on October 24, are being investigated against him. He denies any involvement.
The fire had broken out in a rental vehicle which was parked outside a car rental store owned by a 60-year-old businessman in Agios Tychonas. From the examinations, an incendiary strip about nine meters long was found at the scene, which started from the faรงade of the store and ended at the front of the vehicle.
The car was completely destroyed, with its value estimated at €18,000, while the fire caused additional damage of about €400 to the outside of the store, to glass, masonry, lighting and plastic chairs.
The white vehicle without license plates
Examination of dozens of CCTV videos brought investigators in front of a white vehicle, which appears to be parked near the scene shortly before the arson. The vehicle did not have registration plates, while the passenger got out of it, who, according to the testimony presented to the Court, moved towards the spot and lit the incendiary strip.
Immediately after, the man ran back to the car, which left the scene heading east.
Further evaluation of the recordings revealed that the vehicle had previously stopped in an open field, in close proximity to the scene. There, according to the Police, his registration plates were removed, as in footage before the stop the vehicle appears to have license plates, while when it left for the scene of the arson it no longer carried.
In other recordings, some numbers on the signs are vaguely distinguishable.
The investigators' interest turned to a vehicle, which was kept as evidence at the Limassol Police Department, as part of the investigation of another theft case. In this case, the driver of the vehicle when it was located was the 26-year-old.
During the external inspection of the car, it was found that its characteristics are identical to those recorded in the closed circuits. It is a white vehicle, with tinted windows, black mirrors, additional black plastic fender at the rear of the roof and multi-spoke wheels of a special design.
The element, however, that stood out was the color of the wheels. Although they appeared black, they were found to have been painted with non-factory paint, which could be removed even with a light sand. Under the black paintwork, their original silver metallic color was revealed, just like the wheels of the vehicle captured in the videos appeared.
The Police believe that the combination of the special characteristics of the car, the formation of the rims connects the vehicle with arson.
According to what was reported to the Court, the 26-year-old had been using this vehicle since last September, after his release from the Central Prison.
Interrogated at the offices of the Limassol Police Department, he denied guilt and any involvement in the offenses under investigation, stating that the vehicle is in his possession and has been driving it himself for the past few months.
A second person is being sought
The investigative work is still at an early stage. So far, four statements have been taken, while another 21 are pending from persons in the suspect's friendly, family and professional environment, as well as from people related to the arson scene.
At the same time, the authorities are looking for another person, who was allegedly with the suspect at the time of committing the criminal act.
The investigators' next steps include taking an investigative statement from the 26-year-old, securing and evaluating additional recordings from closed surveillance circuits, as well as issuing telecommunications and banking data, in an effort to determine the motive behind the arson.
At the same time, two more searches are planned in specific areas, while the suspect's vehicle is expected to undergo a technical inspection.
