Man remanded after girlfriend stabbed in row

A NICOSIA man was remanded in custody for eight days yesterday on suspicion of repeatedly stabbing his wife with a kitchen knife after a blazing row.

According to investigating officers, Odysseas Kalamaras, 33, had called police in Lakatamia on Tuesday evening from his home in the Nicosia village of Deftera and told them that he had stabbed his 39-year-old girlfriend Georgina Georgiou.

According to police, Georgina had moved in with her boyfriend just two weeks before.

“Police officers went to the suspect’s home and discovered the suspect sitting next to the woman in the garden. She was lying in a pool of blood,” the Chief Investigator told the court yesterday.

Georgina was rushed to Nicosia General Hospital by ambulance and police immediately sealed off the area.

Doctors at the hospital deduced that Georgina had sustained knife wounds to her head, neck, left ear and arms. The British Cypriot woman’s condition has been described as serious but not life threatening.

Kalamaras, who was half naked and covered in blood, reportedly told police that he attacked Georgina after a blazing row.

“When we read him his rights just before his arrest, the suspect told us ‘I just lost it completely and I didn’t know what I was doing’,” said the investigator.

Investigators have taken in the kitchen knife used in the attack as well as the clothes both were wearing during the incident.

Police are set to take around 40 statements in the case and are expected to have a psychologist examine the suspect.

Judge Lemonia Kaoutzani approved State Prosecutor Marios Koutsoftas’ request for an eight-day remand in the light of the preliminary investigations needed.

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