Nicosia man cleared of raping ex-wife

A NICOSIA man has been found not guilty by a Nicosia Court of raping his ex-wife in November 2004.
According to arresting officers, the alleged incident happened at around 8pm after the 53-year-old defendant and his former wife had dinner with their children at his son’s flat.
After their children left the flat, the suspect asked the 60-year-old woman to have sex with him, but she refused.

The court heard he then allegedly kept her there by force and threatened to throw her out of the second floor window if she did not comply with his wishes.
The woman’s screams, according to the state prosecution, went in vain and the court was told that the suspect forced her on to their son’s bed and raped her.

The woman returned to her own flat where she called her son and told him about the incident.
The former husband had claimed that his wife had willingly had sex with him and that she had filed a false complaint against him because she was “jealous of him being younger than her whilst she was also jealous of her two son’s fondness of their father.”

Ruling on the case yesterday, Judge Lemonia Kaoutzani said the alleged victim had continuously contradicted herself when she took the stand.

“The court also observed that their had not been evidence suggesting that a violent act had been committed against her as she claimed,” the judge added.

On Friday, the same man was acquitted in another trial where he was accused of abusing and systematically raping his next wife who was Bulgarian.

The sobbing woman had told the court that the 53-year-old had threatened her into marrying him and then raped and abused her as often as three times a day.

He would, according to the woman, not let her call anyone or have any kind of social life.
The court had also heard claims that the defendant had told her he would send the mafia to kill her family in Bulgaria if she didn’t marry him.

The Nicosia judges had cleared the defendant explaining their decision mostly on the “unbelievable” testimony of the plaintiff – his wife.

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