Aeroporos trial adjourned pending new appeal

THE PROSECUTION in the Hambis Aeroporos murder trial yesterday filed an appeal to the Supreme Court against the Assizes court’s decision that numbers stored in the memory of a mobile phone found at the scene of the crime could not be used as evidence.

Prosecutors have referred a list of six questions to the Supreme Court concerning the court’s decision not to allow a prosecution witness to read out the 10 unanswered calls, which were stored in the memory of the mobile phone.

The trial was adjourned until October 29 to give the Supreme Court time to rule on the appeal.

Also yesterday, the lawyer of one of the five defendants, Sotiris Athinis, asked the court to change his client’s bail conditions to allow him to leave the country until October 27 — just two days before the trial resumes.

Backing its demand, the defence said the police had warned Athinis that his life was in danger on a daily basis.

Athinis had a narrow escape earlier this month when an anti-tank missile whizzed past him as he entered his cabaret on Limassol’s Heroes Square.

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