Yugoslav held for ‘corrupting minor’

A 28-YEAR-OLD Yugoslav was yesterday remanded in custody on suspicion of corrupting a minor in Limassol.

Limassol District court heard that the suspect had had sex with a 14-year- old girl on a number of occasions between January and July this year. The court also heard that police were investigating complaints that the man had, at some point during the same seven-month period, abducted the minor from her parents’ home.

The court remanded the suspect in police custody for six days.

Limassol police were yesterday also searching for a 30-year-old Limassol man suspected of raping a cabaret artiste on Tuesday afternoon.

According to a complaint made to police by the foreign artiste, she bumped into the man, whom she knew by sight as a regular at her cabaret, in the town’s notorious Heroes square. He asked her back to his flat for coffee and she accepted. But once there, the man attacked and raped her, she told police.

A medical examination showed the artiste had bruising on her face, police said.

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