Police say they catch arsonists in the act

TWO LIMASSOL men were remanded for five days yesterday after police allegedly caught them red-handed torching a Mazda car.

Savvas Kallis, 26, and Stavros Demosthenos, 22, were remanded in custody by a Limassol district court after a police patrol intervened at 3.10am earlier in the day.

The two were seen setting fire to a £7,000 Mazda owned by 40-year-old Yiannakis Christoforou.

Kallis, a Limassol chef, was caught by police trying to flee the scene. Demosthenos got away in a Range Rover but was later arrested at his home.

Police told the court that the suspects’ clothes reeked of petrol and that a container was found near the car.

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