Lawyer killed after driving off cliff

PAPHOS lawyer Marios Georgiou, 26, was killed yesterday when his car plunged down a 600-foot ravine in the Paphos area the early hours.

His critically injured father, Andreas, 50, lay in the wreckage of his dead son’s car at the bottom of the crevasse for some 10 hours before his desperate cries for help were heard.

According to police, Marios was driving the car, which plunged into the deep crevasse next to the Kathikas to Peyia road at around 2.30am yesterday.

The son was killed instantly. The father, badly injured, began shouting for help.

Police had launched a search for the father and son just before midday yesterday, after the family reported them missing. At around the same time, a shepherd grazing his sheep near the ravine heard Andreas’s calls and alerted police.

A police helicopter had to be used to get into the steep crevasse.

The father was last night in intensive care in Paphos hospital.

Less than two years ago, lawyer Marios Georgiou was acquitted by an Athens appeal court and released from a Greek prison where he had been serving a sentence after being wrongfully convicted of murdering an elderly woman in Athens in 1998.

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