Two suspected of robbing tomb

A FATHER and son from Yeroskipou were arrested yesterday on suspicion of pillaging an ancient tomb they uncovered during road works.

Police said 50-year-old Andreas Ilia and his son Herodotos, 20, failed to notify the Antiquities Department after they happened upon a tomb while using a JCB to open a new road in the Ayii Pente area of the Paphos suburb. The tomb was later found to have been plundered and a search revealed two pots hidden nearby – one in a bush with a pick next to it and one in the JCB which the father had been driving.

Both men are expected to appear before Paphos District Court today.

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