Patient remanded after attack on doctor

A LIMASSOL psychiatric patient was remanded for eight days yesterday on suspicion of attempting to murder his doctor.

Demetrakis Antonakis Kyriakides, 31, had already confessed to carrying out Thursday’s gun attack on the office of psychiatrist Costas Kyriakides, no relation, police investigator Andreas Papakyriacou told the Limassol court.

The court heard that the suspect had been a patient of Dr Kyriakides between 1991 and 1994.

On Thursday at lunchtime after being told to wait in line the suspect left the doctor’s office and later returned with a shotgun and fired at the door, which was shut at the time, the court heard.

The doctor’s secretary was slightly hurt in the attack.

She was taken to hospital with minor chest and hand injuries and was given first aid before being released.

Kyriakides then gave himself up at Limassol’s central police station and handed over the shotgun.

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