Man jailed for assaulting cops

AN ELECTRICIAN found guilty of assaulting two policemen yesterday was jailed for three months.

Georgian-born Kyriakos Tachlarides, 63, was convicted of of attacking and swearing at two policemen at the Ayios Dometios police station after he was arrested for being drunk and disorderly back in 2005

During the trial, the court had heard how Tachlarides’s ex-wife had called the police on the night of September 21, 2005 and told them that her ex-husband was drunk and had told her he was on his way to her flat to kill her.

After being placed under arrest by two policemen who had gone to her flat, Tachlarides was taken back to the local police station where he picked up a chair and smashed it on the floor.

He then picked up another wooden chair and threw it at one of the policemen.

It was then that other officers, who heard the shouting, came rushing in and wrestled the man to the ground.

Both Tachlarides and one of the police officers were taken to Nicosia General Hospital where they received treatment for minor injuries sustained after they both fell to the floor during the fracas.

He had pleaded not guilty throughout the trial, claiming it was the police who attacked him and that he was not drunk.

His defence did not convince Judge Alexandros Panayiotou, who yesterday jailed him for three months.

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