AGGRIEVED relatives of the Helios air crash victims were yesterday turned away from the gates of the Presidential Palace, after the President refused to see them.
A large group reached the Presidential Palace demanding “a word” with President Tassos Papadopoulos.
A 16-YEAR-OLD from Limassol was yesterday arrested for using his father’s hunting rifle, just a day after police stopped a 13-year-old girl for speeding through a red light in her father’s car.
TWENTY-year-old Christina Ioannou died at Nicosia general hospital during the early hours of yesterday morning. She is this year’s 38th road victim.
A 36-YEAR-old Filipino housemaid who claims she was sexually assaulted by her Nicosia employer after being kept a virtual slave for four months said yesterday she would stay in Cyprus to fight and clear her name.
“I want to fight this. I have to prove that this is true for my dignity. I’m the third Filipino who ran away from this house,” Angelina said.
A MAN who has been wanted by police since December last year in connection with almost 90 cases of theft and forgery has been arrested and remanded in custody.
A MAN accused of being the driver in a fatal hit-and-run accident that killed a 17-year-old schoolboy on New Year’s Day yesterday told a Nicosia Court he wished he was one who died.
A FOOTBALL hooligan has been sentenced to 18 consecutive weekends of detention, the first such punishment to be implemented following the passing of the relevant law last year.
Marios Papayiannis, 23, was found guilty of aggravated assault, causing grievous bodily harm and of illegally assembling outside a sports ground.
A 20-YEAR-OLD Cypriot studying in Greece died suddenly on Monday, only moments after completing his end-of year university examinations.
Greek authorities said yesterday that Iacovos Metaxa from the village of Galata died of “natural causes”, while further histological examinations are expected to shed further light on the exact reasons behind his abrupt death.
A CARDIOLOGIST has warned that a shortage of a common medicine could be putting thousands of people’s lives at risk.
Doctor Louis Ioannou, who works at the Evangelismos Clinic in Paphos, yesterday told the Mail that the shortage of warfarin, “seems to be quite major”.
Warfarin is an anticoagulant medication that is administered orally or, very rarely, by injection.
POLICE arrested 43-year old Constandinos Christoforou, the prime suspect for the attempted murder of American Michael Joseph on Monday, after he turned himself in at a police station yesterday afternoon.
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